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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
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Git rebase, what can go wrong
git rebase: what can go wrong?
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My favorite C compiler flags during development
The major compilers have an enormous number of knobs . Most are highly specialized, but others are generally useful even if uncommon. For warnings, the venerable -Wall -Wextra is a good start, but circumstances improve by tweaking this warning set. This article covers high-hitting development-time options in GCC…
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Anki-fy your life
Creating a subconscious problem-solving framework.
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Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
Are there any other hardcoded folder names in macOS? Where would I even start looking?
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Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)
Major Hayden made a simple and free tool to check the public-facing IP address of infrastructure. Its popularity nearly killed it.
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Datasette is my data hammer
If you're exploring or publishing data, you should give this open source tool a go.
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Making macOS Apps Uninstallable
Wiggling apps in Launchpad There's this thing called **Launchpad** on macOS which shows you all the apps on your Mac in an iOS like manner. You may already have it in the Dock, but you can also launch it as any other app. There's even a nifty trackpad gesture for it where you *pinch with thumb and three fingers*. ...
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EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel
The Microsoft Excel add-in is here!
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Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop
A step-by-step tutorial you can follow along, featuring ffmpeg, xrandr, tcpdump and a dhcp server running on a Raspberry Pi
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Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
A bit of reverse engineering goes a long way
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Fake it until you automate it
A pragmatic way for you to start automating deployments of a Legacy system.
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How to improve Python packaging
There is an area of Python that many developers have problems with. This is an area that has seen many different solutions pop up over the years, with many different opinions, wars, and attempts to solve it. Many have complained about the packaging ecosystem and tools making their lives harder. Many beginners are…
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Setting up an electronics workshop
A minimalist, non-commercial take on a handful of indispensable workshop tools.
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Annoying A/B testing mistakes
Running experiments is equal parts powerful and terrifying. Powerful because you can validate changes that will transform your product for the better…
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A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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Become Ungoogleable
I've removed my website from indexing by Google . The proximate cause is Google's new effort to DRM the web ( archive ) but there is of course so much more.
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Custom instructions for ChatGPT
We’re rolling out custom instructions to give you more control over how ChatGPT responds. Set your preferences, and ChatGPT will keep them in mind for all future conversations.
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I used GPT to build a search tool for my second brain note-taking system
In this post, I discuss how I used GPT embeddings to build a smart search tool for my second brain note-taking system.
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μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell scripting, and a small...
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Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code
A step-by-step guide to making a landing page with AI and no-code tools: AI-written code and copy, fonts, colour palettes, images, audio and video.
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My Emacs eye candy
I get the occasional question about my Emacs theme, font, and other eye candy. I'm always tickled and happy to share. It's been a while since I've mad...
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“Make” as a static site generator (2022)
Static site generators are in fashion for good reasons. The resulting pages are easy to host, fast and extremely low on maintenance while being sufficient for many use cases. As I learned when setting up my blog , writing a simple script myself is faster and more satisfying than learning one of the other site builders…
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Textual Web: TUIs for the Web
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
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916 Days of Emacs
Freedom is a state of mind
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Not Using Zoom
Dear client, Setting aside the challenges of using Zoom under ChromeOS and Linux, I have mostly been declining invitations to Zoom calls...
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I Block Ads
I block ads in the browser. I block ads at the DNS level.
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Just paying Figma because nothing else works
My family wasn’t poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught “it’s a poor craftsman that blames their tools”, which apparen...