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Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
How I built MacThrottle, a menu bar app that tells me when my Mac is thermal throttling, and the journey to find the right macOS APIs.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server
Use a mobile phone as your home server. Example with oneplus 6t
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My Emacs eye candy
I get the occasional question about my Emacs theme, font, and other eye candy. I'm always tickled and happy to share. It's been a while since I've mad...
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My Tungsten Cube (2019)
A few months ago I bought a featureless cube of tungsten. It’s 1.5 inches across and cost $130, but I argue it was one of the best purchases I’ve made recently.
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Beyond Light Table
I have three big announcements to make today. The first is the official announcement of our next project. We’ve been quietly talking about it over the past few months, but today we want to tell you a bit more about it and finally reveal its name:
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Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
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Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers
Today, Mozilla Monitor (previously called Firefox Monitor), a free service that notifies you when your email has been part of a breach, announced its new p
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Git Undo
Tell me if you recognize this scenario: you’re in the middle of rewriting your local commits when you suddenly realize that you have gone too far and, after one too many rebases, you are left with a history that looks nothing like the way you wanted. No? Well, I certainly do. It was in one of those moments of despair…
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Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
Author, writer, and creator sharing insights on learning, writing, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and more.
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Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra
Note: This blog post was written for GCC 7. Later versions of the compiler may have added some of these warnings to -Wall or -Wextra . ...
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GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy
Stale Bot’s are a type of automated bot on Github, which locks issues which are “stale” (as in have no recent activity). This seems like a helpful tool at first, but in reality it’s terrible for all p
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My thoughts on Python in Excel
An in-depth review of Microsoft's new Python in Excel functionality
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Text-based web browsers
How do they fare with (not so) recent additions to HTML?
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WorldWideWeb.app
The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button: About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, […]
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Amazon Web Services In Plain English (2019)
No matter what you do with AWS you'll probably end up using these services as everything else interacts with them.
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Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
The toolkit for spec-driven development. Write feature specs, not prompts. Ship better software with AI agents that understand your requirements.
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Analyzing my electricity consumption
Electricity prices have been steadily rising in France for the past few years, with a particularly sharp increase since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This has led me to wonder about my own electricity consumption and how I could optimize it. The hardware Since 2015, the organization managing the…
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Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used
A developer's lament about Xcode's opaque errors, unreadable project files, and Apple's culture of pretending everything is fine.
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Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
This was posted in the TIL section, the low-effort section of my website where I post things that I find useful, but that don't get the full quality checks content elsewhere on this site does.
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Bash Error Handling
Here's a preview from my zine, Bite Size Bash ! If you want to see more comics like this, sign up for my saturday comics newsletter or browse more comics !
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Introducing node-firefox
NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here's a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help ...
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Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
Computer users organize their files into folders because that is the primary tool offered by operating systems. But applying this standard hierarchical model to my own files, I began to notice shortcomings of this paradigm over the years. At the same time, I used some other information systems not based on…
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Don't write documentation in Markdown
Please don't write your documentation in Markdown. Please. I'm begging you. Markdown is tolerable for short documentation, like a readme.md. Past that, it's...
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CNC lasers for cutting and engraving
Laser cutters can injure or blind you permanently if you do not follow safety procedures! This post is an attempt to collect all of the information that I’ve gathered over the last year or so regarding budget laser cutters. There are no affiliate links on this page, I have no ties to any of the companies mentioned…