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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 198 posts.
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On MicroSD card problems (2010)
The microSD ware for January 2010 was not an incidental post. It is actually snapshot of a much longer forensic investigation to find the ground truth behind some irregular Kingston memory cards.
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Visualizing Docker Containers and Images
This post is meant as a Docker 102 -level post. If you are unaware of what Docker is, or don't know how it compares to virtual machines ...
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Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout for Swype
An overview of my work on optimizing phone keyboard layouts for Swype and T9. There's some interesting history here as well as a novel simulation-based approach to keyboard optimization.
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Vim's speed is not really the point (2013)
I am a Vim user. And a Vim fan.I was fiddling around for some time, you know, just knowing the basics, because it is convenient to do small changes on servers without having to worry about installi…
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Mastering Git submodules
Hair-pulling. Helpless rage. Clusterfucks. They leave much to be desired, yet sometimes are the right tool for the job. Let’s tame them!
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LeakCanary: Detect all Android memory leaks
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Tools for debugging, testing and using HTTP/2
With CloudFlare's release of HTTP/2 for all our customers the web suddenly has a lot of HTTP/2 connections. To get the most out of HTTP/2 you'll want to be using an up to date web browser (all the major browsers support HTTP/2).
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Grepping logs is still terrible
The other day, I wrote a controversial piece about why grepping logs is terrible , the reactions were interesting. I've got some great feedback (thanks!), and there were a lot of hostility too. I've been called incompetent, lazy, stupid and a systemd-fanboy and various other things. By people who didn't read past the…
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GNU make insanity: finding the value of the -j parameter
The other day at work a colleague posed the seemingly innocent question "Can I find out the value of the GNU make -j parameter inside a Ma...
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The convergence of compilers, build systems and package managers
Abstract. The traditional abstraction barriers between compiler, build system and package manager are increasingly ill-suited for IDEs, parallel build systems, and modern source code organization. Recent compilers like go and rustc are equipped with a fully-fledged build systems; semantic build systems like Bazel and…
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Data Backup Strategies: Why the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy is the Best
A Backblaze survey found 54% of people know someone who’s lost data. Learn how the 3-2-1 backup rule can help prevent data loss and keep your files secure.