181
Topics /
Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 304 posts.
182
Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git
PerezDeRosso2016 Santiago Perez De Rosso and Daniel Jackson: " Purposes, concepts, misfits, and a redesign of git ". Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , 10.1145/2983990.2984018 .
183
184
Python packaging is good now
setup.py is your friend. It’s real sorry about what happened last time.
185
186
Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal
Adrian Sieber's personal website and blog
187
Richer command line interfaces
This post is preceded by a description of two types of command line interfaces . The more command line-like of these two types integrates into a normal shell session ( python , telnet , bash ) instead of using the alternate screen to present a fullscreen text user interface ( top , vim , emacs ). Sometimes programs…
188
Piwik 3.0.0
Piwik 3.0.0 brings many improvements to Piwik, including a full redesign of the application, security improvements and several major improvements in the core analytics platform and core plugins APIs.
189
Dropbox: Going Deeper with Project Infinite
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
190
191
Ditching tmux
This week I started an experiment. I wanted to know whether I would be able to completely ditch tmux. Don’t get me wrong here, I absolutely love how tmux makes terminal multiplexing transparent for me. I’m also very used to <C-b>c, <C-b>1-0 and so on. I also have a custom set of keymaps and plugins I use frequently…
192
193
We have an epidemic of bad posture
What happens if you Google “coworking space”? You see people working hard. I see lots of necks, backs, arms, wrist and hands that will need phyiscal therapy in…
194
G Suite: intelligent tools designed for teams
Posted by Prabhakar Raghavan, Vice President Apps, Google Cloud Research shows that each week we spend the equivalent of three work day...
195
196
197
I am a puts debuggerer
Update (2023-06-28): Added “I required a file, but I want to know what files were actually loaded” I love puts debugging I am a puts debuggerer. I don’t say this to disparage people that use a Real Debugger. I think Real Debuggers are great, I’ve just never taken the time to learn one well. Every time I try to lean…
198
Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work
After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...
199
A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (2009)
This is the third post in the article series about Unix and Linux utilities that you should know about. In this post I will take you through the useful lsof tool. If netcat was called the Swiss Army Knife of Network Connections, then I'd call lsof the Swiss Army Knife of Unix debugging. Lsof follows Unix philosophy...
200
Curl-library: An alert on the upcoming 7.51.0 release
In two weeks time, on Wednesday November 2nd, we will release curl and libcurl 7.51.0 unless something earth shattering happens.
201
Mobile App Launch Checklist
Explore Branch guides, reports, case studies, webinars, podcasts, and practical resources for deep linking, attribution, mobile measurement, and app growth.
202
A Saner Windows Command Line
The default Windows command line experience is a little lacking. Let's supercharge it.
203
204
205
Panic Status Board is being discontinued
Status Board was something we’d always wanted. Originally a very nice web page designed to brighten up our office and act as our virtual water-cooler for company stats — as seen in this famous blog post — it evolved into a feature-packed, beautiful iOS app. We made it very easy to make beautiful boards, it worked…
206
Version 11 of Mathematica
Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Version 11 released Aug 8, 2016. 3D printing, machine learning & neural networks, audio. Available for desktop, cloud.
207
Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
Learn about the considerations and interop commands available when working across Windows and Linux file systems with WSL.
208
Using Gmail with Mutt
A tutorial on using gmail with mutt, a console-based email client, along with some advanced concepts such as encrypting your account password and sending emails from a different <code>From</code> address.
209
Pine64 (64-bit quad core for $15) Quick Start Guide
RayHightower.com - Tech company founder. Commercial real estate investor. Building teams, software, and companies. Located in Phoenix, AZ, USA.
210
Google Cloud Debugger: use local source, Go and Node.js support, IntelliJ plugin
Google Cloud Debugger , which lets you inspect the state of an application at any code location without stopping or slowing it down, now has an enhanced UI, expanded language support and debugging from more places.