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You could ask the author "wardfarnsworth at gmail.com". I have been in touch with him before about his chess website https://www.chesstactics.org based on his book "Predator at the…

Here's a companion website with similar features: https://latinlanguage.org/ for an upcoming book: https://www.amazon.com/Latin-Tamer-Mastering-Language-Rome/d...

Counter-example: https://deephn.org/?q=embeddings Contrast with https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... It is fast but, nowhere close to accurate or useful …

Under https://lichess.org/training on the left side pane there is a "Puzzle Themes" link (takes you to https://lichess.org/training/themes ).

I currently use the "Tabs Switcher" menu bar app which works quite well: https://alexdenk.eu/mywork/tabsswitcher.html Have you looked at this app for inspiration? I'm not affiliate…

There is an offline version: https://www.diagrams.net (they had to change their name from draw.io recently). There is a download button right on the main page.

MIT Scratch seems to work well: https://scratch.mit.edu Works well on an iPad, even better on the desktop

I would recommend using Apache Tika to extract the text from the PDFs and using Solr (or Elasticsearch) to index and search them.

Go to Settings, scroll down to find the app, and select it. Then you get the "Allow to access" and a list of entitlements, one of which is "Photos". Select "Photos" and you get thr…

I've seen it happen when the machine has both an ethernet and wi-fi connection.

“CSS In Depth” from Manning[0] is an excellent resource to learn how to go from unstyled pages to properly styled ones. [0]: https://www.manning.com/books/css-in-depth

"The Long Chase", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192254 That discussion has links to books with similar stories. Enjoy.

I've used Atomic Parsley[1] and MP4Box[2] successfully for various MOV and MP4 related muxing and metadata handling before. [1] http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net [2] https://gpa…

something like: http://freecode.com/projects/mactorii should work

There is the multi-part ISO-9241 that covers the ergonomics of human-computer interaction. It even provides a definition of usability.

My photos are very important to me, so i do several backups: 1) The iPhoto Library is rsync'd to an external HDD 2) The iPhoto Library is rsync'd to a local FreeNAS box 3) Arq back…

If you want something more configurable / heavyweight checkout Tsung: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/ Perhaps could serve as inspiration for future work :)

if you are on a Mac you can use QuickCursor and edit your mail in vi :) it works in any application that uses a standard Cocoa text box. http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quic…

Which is why it is better to explain the benefits, not the features.

Just like they did with Audible. And according to this[1] article on BoingBoing, they promised to do away with DRM, but have still not done it in FOUR years! Link[1]: http://boingb…

have you seen Eddie: http://eddie.sourceforge.net/what.html