2011
The Overflow Offline project
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
2012
Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little
Pipenv is a Python packaging tool that does one thing reasonably well — application dependency management. However, it is also plagued by issues, limitations and a break-neck development process. In the past, Pipenv’s promotional material was highly misleading as to its purpose and backers.
2013
My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
Three months ago, during my first Think Week, I realized that consistently working out would meaningfully improve my long term health and happiness.
2014
Building a Lightroom PC
Why I switched to Windows 10 from macOS and built a water-cooled and overclocked 5.2GHz 6-core PC for photo editing with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
2015
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2017
Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4
Read up about how you can cool off your Raspberry Pi 4 and drop a few degrees. I compare several cooling solutions including firmware updates.
2018
My favorite regex of all time
I thought I'd share my favorite regex of all time. [ -~] Any idea what this regexp matches? Scroll down for the answer. . . . . . . . . It matches all ASCII characters from the space to tilde. What are these characters? These are all printable characters! Take a look at this ASCII table. Printable characters start…
2019
Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs
Every time I look at someone’s simple static site generation setup for their blog, I feel a pang of envy. I’m sure I could make a decent blogging engine in 2,000 lines of code, and it would be something I’d understand, be proud over, able to extend, and willing to share with others.
2020
The Safari MCP server for web developers
Update: In Safari 27 and Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and more powerful.
2021
2022
Mozilla's low-overhead open source replay debugger
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
2023
Typing fast is about latency, not throughput
any speed above, say, maybe 80 wpm , isn’t going to hinder anyone when trying to put anything into the computer
2024
Edit is now open source
Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub!
2025
What's the matter with PGP?
Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google’s end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal. With providers like Google and Yahoo onboa…
2026
Productivity in 2017: analyzing 225 million hours of work time
What was the most productive day of 2017? How often do we get distracted by emails or IM? By analyzing millions of hours of anonymized data, we found out.
2027
Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
Pass ( main site , Arch wiki ) is a command-line Unix password manager that utilizes GPG for all underlying encryption. However, beyond passwords, we can utilize it in a number of clever ways.
2028
A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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2031
Interactive examples for learning jq
Learn how to search, query, and modify JSON data with 25 interactive jq examples and explanations
2032
Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
Shell tab-completions can be very handy, but setting them up is complicated by the fact that half your users would be using Bash-on-Linux, while the other half will be using Zsh-on-OSX, each of which has different tab-completion APIs. Furthermore, most users exploring an unfamiliar CLI tool using tab completion…
2033
Things to avoid in Docker containers
Read the most recent Red Hat Developers blog content. Explore our featured monthly resource as well as our most recently published items.
2034
Installing Every Arch Package
Using algorithms and Julia to install as many packages as possible from the Arch Linux official repositories
2035
2036
A home made PCB stepper motor
The first idea is interesting because it means cheap, precision-manufactured PCBs can be easily transformed into cheap, precise tiny motors.
2037
Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
2038
Elite for Emacs (2015)
A recent discovery from old backups revealed something long forgotten: I really developed a version of Elite for…. that’s right… Emacs text editor.
2039
2040
Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide…