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GUM: A better CLI for Git
The books did make me think. A lot. A lot about a tool I use everyday… git http://git-scm.com .
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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When did I run that command? Update your Bash prompt with the command start time
Update your Bash prompt with the command start time.
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Docker for Mac Beta Review
I finally got access to the Docker For Mac beta. My initial impressions are extremely positive. With Docker packaged so well for end users…
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Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant
One of the ironies of working a lot with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift is that I’ve had to learn a lot about Vagrant and Virtualbox. Mostly I use it to spin up OpenShift clusters on my local machine, but I’ve had to poke into lots of corners to get various other things working too.
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Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
Erik Gahner Larsen
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Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ
Build 3103 is out now. Downloads and a full changelog are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
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Tcpdump Examples
In these tcpdump examples you will find 22 tactical commands to zero in on the key packets. Know your network with this powerful packet capture tool. Examples for http, icmp, dns, snmp and more.
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The "five whys" productivity technique
If you're having trouble with your productivity, consider finding the root using the 5 Whys technique.
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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to use computers
MIT Media Lab Spin-off Augmental has developed the MouthPad, a device that allows users to interact with phones and computers using their tongue and other head gestures.
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Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph
document organizer with tags and full-text-search, in a simple and clean sqlite3 schema
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Code search is hard
Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard
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Going Paper-Free for $220
It's 2011. Personal computers have been around and popular for well over a decade now, and yet we still have to deal with a huge amount of physical paper.
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Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
If you work in a newsroom, there’s a good chance you work with colleagues on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more. Google Workspace software is simple and powerful. But anyone working in a newsroom has probably asked themselves: What can Google see? What about our most sensitive conversations and documents? What…
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Introducing TogetherJS
What is TogetherJS? We'd like to introduce TogetherJS, a real-time collaboration tool out of Mozilla Labs. TogetherJS is a service you add to an existing website to add real-time collaboration ...
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Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go
A small tweak to your Git config that will make the diff output smarter and more language aware
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Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
I recently found myself needing to change the monitor that a cheap HDMI “dummy plug” pretended to be. It was a random one I had bought on Amazon several years ago that acted as a 4K monitor, and I needed it to be something simpler that didn’t support a 4K resolution. The story behind why is a long one that I’m still…
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Git-repo – Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line
I got nothing to blog.
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Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we …
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The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
So! Suppose you’re an intrepid engineer in a nascent Developer Productivity team. Your engineering organization has decided that it wants to move towards a monorepo . You’ve heard the stories told of Google, Meta, Uber - each a large technology company with developer productivity organizations consisting of hundreds…