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Outsourcing thinking
Researcher and runner writing about technology, nature, and physical endeavours.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Why Emacs: Redux
redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
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We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
Plane Airgapped runs Plane on networks with no internet access. How it works, what you bring into the network, how licensing and upgrades work offline, and who it’s for.
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Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (2014)
After a decade of writing explanations, I've simplified the strategy I use to get new concepts to click. Here's how to teach yourself a difficult idea, or…
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Life Stats
Find out what's happened in your lifetime.
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How to write a linter using tree-sitter in an hour
This article was discussed on Hacker News.
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Switching from Chrome to Firefox
I recently switched from Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox as my main desktop browser. Here’s what I did to improve upon Firefox’ sometimes not ideal defaults. There are a couple of reasons why I considered the switch from Chrome to Firefox: A growing uneasy feeling about Google’s approach to user privacy, Manifest v3…
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The Problem with Gradle
Or: How to Remain Sane when Approaching Gradle (with apologies to Hans Dockter).
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My Favorite One Liners
My favorite Linux command-line one-liners: turn shell output into an image, find your biggest directories, list your most-used commands, serve files over HTTP.
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Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
How I'm using Kagi Search with low vision to manage visual fatigue, plus my favorite Kagi accessibility features for low vision + CVI and Kagi low vision theme
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Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes
I was surprised not to find an introduction to Emacs Lisp on learnxinyminutes.com, so I created one, which is now maintained there. Comments and feedback are we...
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Vim tricks
I’ve been using Vim for eight years and am still discovering new things. This is usually seen as a Good Thing About Vim. In my head, though, it’s a failing of discoverability: I keep discovering new things because Vim makes it so hard to know what’s available. While people often talk about the beauty of modal editing…
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What is in that .git directory?
Well, I think most of you reading this blog use git more or less on a daily basis, but have you ever looked into what is in the .git folder that git creates? Let's explore it together and understand what is going on in there.
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How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
I’ve been using Home Assistant for about seven years now, starting back when I was living in a small apartment. At the time, my setup was modest: I …
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Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X
A major update to Logic Pro X includes a professional version of Live Loops, a completely redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools.
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I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long it took me to apply to each one. Here is what I found.
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Claude Tag
Claude Tag is a new way for teams to work with Claude.
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Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some
Published: 10-07-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire…
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How to write a Git commit message (2014)
Commit messages matter. Here's how to write them well.
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No script is too simple
I write very short scripts, sometimes for single-line commands. Here's why you should do it too.
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Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Undeleting a file overwritten with mv
Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.
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Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes
Digging up some useful and not so popular commands in Linux
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Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
The Algolia-powered Hacker News API returns nested comment threads that look like this: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/27941108
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Bpftrace for Linux 2018
bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018: the bpftrace front-end