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Who Uses To-Do Lists?
Successful people who use to-do lists and the boring takeaway.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,503 posts.
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House Address “Twins” Proximity
In a previous post, I did a bit of analysis of the names of towns and streets . However, that clearly wasn’t enough to sate my bizarre interest in all things address-based, so here I am again with more street-name-based nerdery.
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Tests that sometimes fail
Over the years one of the most complex issues we have had to deal with at Discourse was flaky tests, in this post I would like to talk a bit about the various patterns we have come across and ways we tackle this issue.
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Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt
Over the years of troubleshooting performance problems in the Unix/Linux world, I have seen multiple cases where a regularly used command line tool in a customer server just stops working for some reason. The tool just returns immediately, doing absolutely nothing. No output printed, no coredumps and the exit code is…
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How I Use Notion
This post is a fairly comprehensive discussion of how I use Notion (a free personal knowledge management app) to organise various aspects of my life: project management, reading, academics, plans/goals, investing, and more. The post is not designed to be read linearly – pick and choose the bits that are relevant to…
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"If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."
Xen virtual private server hosting for the technically adept. Since 2005. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD virtual machines
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AWS CodePipeline
We announced AWS CodePipeline at AWS re:Invent last fall (see my post, New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment for the details). As I said at that time, this tool will help you to model and automate your software release process. The automation provided by CodePipeline is designed to make your release process…
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Notion encourages busy-work
Why has everything become so needlessly complicated?
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SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier
...and that you'll wish you knew about earlier too
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The productivity tax you pay for context switching
How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus
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Introducing the Open Library Explorer
At the Library Leaders Forum 2020 (demo) , Open Library unveiled the beta for what it’s calling the Library Explorer : an immersive interface which powerfully recreates and enhances the experience of navigating a physical library. If the tagline doesn’t grab your attention, wait until you see it in action:
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Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git
Give your agents, developers, and automations a home for code and data. We’ve just launched Artifacts: Git-compatible versioned storage built for agents. Create tens of millions of repos, fork from any remote, and hand off a URL to any Git client.
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Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python
The third edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is now available for purchase or to read for free online . It has updated content and several new chapters, but one chapter that was left on the cutting room floor was "Working with Audio, Video, and Webcams" . I present the 26-page rough draft chapter in this…
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GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
Release news for version GIMP 2.99.18
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Stop saying "just" (2019)
Do you work in Software Engineering, and have you seen messages or sentences like these before?
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Getting syntax highlighting wrong
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
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Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini camera
I used Ghidra twice, so that means I'm officially an expert in reverse engineering
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How I'm using Helix editor
My Helix editor config and how I am using it
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Wood Joint Strength Testing
So I set out to do some more thorough experiments, this time using more samples and actually measuring the breaking force of the joints.
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Google Earth Pro is now free
Over the last 10 years, businesses, scientists and hobbyists from all over the world have been using Google Earth Pro for everything from...
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How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
Walkthrough of an IoT Potty Button which makes a phone call when a kid has to go. With Python, Twilio, AWS IoT, Lambda and an IoT Button build one-touch alerts to make a phone call. Includes sample code and links to build your own poop button or extend the idea.
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What’s Hiding in Your PDF?
PDFs hold information you may not know about. Discover different forms of metadata and where to look for them.