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Making a smart bike dumb so it works again
My smart bike company went bankrupt, so I added a physical button to turn the light on/off
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
Discover how text fragments revolutionize web navigation. Learn to link directly to specific text on any web page, surpassing traditional 'Ctrl+F' searches. Explore this powerful, user-friendly feature for precise content sharing and improved web experiences.
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Why and How I Wrote My Academic Book in Plain Text
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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
I built a small tool that turns my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper, so I can read my favorite blogs on a pocket e-reader instead of my phone.
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Building a TB-303 from Scratch
Code music in the browser.
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How I use Kate editor
I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do.…
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Executable Examples in Go
Did you know that Go lets us provide executable code examples as part of our documentation? It’s pretty neat. Let’s take a tour of this useful feature and see how it works.
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How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book
It’s a funny feeling to spend nearly six years making something and then finally hold it in your hand. It’s simultaneously, “This is it! ” and “Is this it?” How can it be so small when it feels like such a big piece of my life?
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Bookmarklets I Use
Hi, my name is Philipp! This is my personal website, where I write stuff with inconsistent frequency.
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We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
TLDR: I made a CLI tool that can resolve an IP address to a country, US state and even a city. https://github.com/jimaek/geolocation-tool It works well and confirms ipinfo's findings. Recently, I read how ipinfo finally proved what most technical people assumed: VPN providers don't actually maintain
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Hidden gems of moreutils
It seems no matter how long I work with the command line, every once in a while I find handy utilities I've never encountered before. Most people have heard about the bird coreutils , that's where utilities such as echo , cat , and others come from. But did you know about moreutils ?
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One Year of TILs
Just over a year ago I started tracking TILs, inspired by Josh Branchaud’s collection. I’ve since published 148 TILs across 43 different topics. It’s a great format! TIL stands for …
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What comes after Git
Git was born from the collaboration problems in the Linux kernel. Nearly a decade later, new problems arose when Kubernetes (the operating system of the cloud) brought open-source collaboration to a new level.
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Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano
I’m pretty sure that the hardest choice in my life to date has been the one between my two loves: music on the hand and computer programming on the other. The programming won out, I figured it would be a much more lucrative field to pursue a career in, besides it was a much better match for my talents. From the age of…
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Next Gen Static Blogging
Take a look at the source code of this page - I rely mostly on CSS for the rendering of this article.
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How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
Learn how to use Makefiles to streamline your Terraform and Hugo projects, making environment management and static site generation more efficient.
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Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices
I'm trying to learn ways to minimize my reliance upon large companies for handling my day-to-day personal data. So I figured calendar and contacts should be on my list of things to self-host. This post is about how I migrated all my Google calendars and phone contacts to my own server without losing any features...
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How MDN's Autocomplete Search Works
Autocomplete search added to MDN Web Docs allows you to quickly jump to the document you're looking for by typing parts of the document title
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Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
Configuring Org Mode in Emacs for beautiful typography for both text and code editing.
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Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
I think I should blog more about random troubleshooting sessions, if nothing else it will remind me what steps I took when it inevitably happens again!
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Dissatisfied with Docker
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Signal PINs
At Signal, our goal is to build a reliable, secure, and private communication experience that is broadly accessible and simple to use. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours.
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Notepad++ v8 release
Download Notepad++ source code of current version and/or check sha-256 digests for binary packages on GitHub
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