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JSON-LD explained for personal websites
A guide to implementing JSON-LD on your personal website for better SEO, covering WebSite, Person, BlogPosting, and more with ready-to-use code snippets.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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A year of building for the terminal
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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Finding Free Food with Python
If you live in a major city, there’s a good chance you’ve used (or at least heard of) food delivery services like Postmates, GrubHub, or DoorDash. These services are great for times when I’m behind on groceries or when I’m getting some late night studying in before a big midterm or final. The only problem with these…
1954
A pentester gets root - step by step example
DevOops is a retired machine on HackTheBox. This write-up is a walk through the methodology that leads to root shell.
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PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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A beginner's guide to Git version control
Learn the basics of using Git, the most popular tool for tracking and managing code changes for your application development.
1957
Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose
Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦
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Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
Production systems for ecommerce, finance, operations, and applied AI - built and operated for two decades.
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Wireshark is switching to Qt
Today I released the next development version of Wireshark, 1.11.0. This marks a major change in the direction of the project. We’re switching our user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. Both libraries make it easy for developers write applications that will run on different platforms without having to rewrite a lot…
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Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write
This blog post was written together with <mclare> , who made coooool visualizations like the picture at the end of the post!
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How to trim video clips instantly without reencoding
How to save hours by trimming videos without reencoding or rerendering.
1962
Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org
We are happy to announce the deployment of Vector Tiles on OpenStreetMap Foundation servers and the publication of the layer on the OSM website ! We have been working hard to bring you a fresh look to OSM data, paired with exciting technological upgrades.
1963
Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader
With Google Reader’s impending shutdown, lots of new feed-sync services and self-hostable projects will be popping up.
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An Algorithm to Extract Looping GIFs from Videos
Yet another big problem of the Internet era tackled by Mathematics. Looping GIFs are a very popular form of art on the Web, with two dedicated forums …
1965
Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one ...
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I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
I try to pay attention to the small things that affect my quality of life. When something keeps bothering me, I want to investigate, find a likely cause, and act on it. What changed recently is what I'm willing to build to support that. With AI tooling, projects I
1968
Inside the Windows Console
Welcome to the third post in the Windows Command-Line series. In this post, we'll start to dig into the internals of the Windows Console and Command-Line, what it is, what it does ... and what it doesn't do!
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New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
We're REALLY excited about this announcement and think many of you will be too ;) On May 11th 2017, during Microsoft's Build conference keynote, Terry
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Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
Intro The goal of this tutorial is to describe Python development ecosystem. It can be helpful for someone coming to Python from another programming language. They say that you should stick to algorithms and data structures, that you can learn a new language in just a couple of weeks, that it’s just a new syntax. I…
1971
Getting Started with Signal
How to take advantage of Signal for secure messages and calls
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QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
Try the first release of the QNX Developer Desktop, a self‑hosted QNX development environment that eliminates cross‑compilation for faster workflows.
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Exploring CLI Best Practices
At Localytics we build command line interfaces that manage our infrastructure and processes. This is our list of best practices that we’ve learned.
1975
Now I can just print that video
It all started with Instagram Reels showing me too many yummy cooking videos. I wanted to try some recipes out myself. But I didn’t want to have to keep my phone in the kitchen, and I didn’t want to have to keep unlocking it to see the next step. I wanted to print the recipe out, and have it on the counter while I was…
1976
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
In late 2025 the company behind MinIO decided to abandon it to pursue other commercial interests. As well as upsetting a bunch of folk, it also put the cat amongst the pigeons of many software demos that relied on MinIO to emulate S3 storage locally, not to mention build pipelines that used it for validating S3…
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1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
We’re thrilled to announce that Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous …
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Sublime Text 2 Build 2181
A new beta of Sublime Text 2, Build 2181, is available now for your enjoyment. The first thing you'll notice is the new icon, by the The Iconfactory .