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The linked site actually says "North America", which has been incorrectly editorialized to "USA". This is misleading because their announcement appears intended to also cover Canad…

“pass” in this context refers to a GPG-encrypted file based password manager: https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_(software) https://wiki.archlinux.or…

I've written a series of posts on practical "recipes" for how to use Ledger (one of the leading plain text accounting systems) effectively in more complex situations beyond the bas…

My mom started a blog about her triathlon experiences after retirement, including being part of Team USA at world championships: https://triathlonatretirement.blogspot.com/

Thank you! Do you have any suggestions for how the formatting could be better? Is there something outright broken in how it displays in your browser, or is something simply sub-opt…

Content warning: Be aware that the linked article opens with a large photo of bodies of killed civilians. It is not explicitly "gory" but it is upsetting. If the author happens to …

A previous discussion of my writeup on this awesome feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19520966

Hey! I'm really glad it was useful to someone. Thank you for the kind words :)

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I've written a series of guides on how to use these tools in practice, here: https://felixcrux.com/blog/ledger-practices

I'll take any chance I can get to link to this wonderfully sprawling 1996 article from novelist Neal Stephenson about the laying and landing of transoceanic cables: https://www.wir…

Emacs, same as for everything else.

Another similar example is Tracy Kidder (a writer, not an anthropologist) being embedded with a team at Data General, resulting in the fantastic book "The Soul of a New Machine". I…