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One nice quality of life improvement for i3 is update the window names dynamically and use emojis for applications https://github.com/cboddy/i3-workspace-names-daemon

Hi HN, I've been been steered towards line managing the small team of which I've been the tech-lead for some time as a staff level software engineer in a medium sized Org. I'll als…

Congrats on the launch! Just curious if you're interested in an incubator? We went through the Oxford Foundry[1] last year and would highly recommend it. [1] https://www.oxfordfoun…

> '''"""''';print("Hello, World!");"""'''""" This is still one line of code. It is a valid python program . This is because python will join strings that are adjacent strings (eg. …

Also super bored in lockdown so I made this for our toddler, motivation here: https://boddy.im/song-and-spell.html

From 4 years in a large public quant house (not HFT): everything upstream of trade execution is Python with very heavy use of numpy, scipy and pandas. This has pros and cons, on ba…

I was _so_ excited when Rocket League first came to Linux, but that was several years before Proton[1] was released. But according to [2] the game runs really well on Linux via Pro…

# 2GB linode instance ($10/month) nginx mailinabox (email, nextcloud) gogs 6 static websites 3 (dumb) little personal web-projects selfoss mumble openvpn # rpi-3 at home osmc (kodi…

TimescaleDB looks really very promising but this is a red flag: "Hypertables support all standard PostgreSQL constraint types, with the exception of foreign key constraints on othe…

Very excited by the prospect of a modern terminal-mail client that is easier to use! After following the README: this is clearly not ready/designed for wide consumption - the recip…

I see the same from London.

Yes that's true, rlwrap gives you command history on top of sqlplus which makes it much more usable. Actually, okcli started off as rlwrap with a complicated login file that querie…

For a broad introduction to Bayesian analysis, MCMC and PyMC I'd suggest Bayesian Methods for Hackers[1] [1] http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-...

+1 for NO_COLOR. For example, yellow text on a dull yellow background? No thanks. For years I've just wrapped commands on bash to strip the colour control-codes from stdout. functi…

Yeesh, there's so much involved. I've been running my own mail server with https://mailinabox.email for ~2 years and can heartily recommend it. Still, even with that there are gotc…

Probably since ctrl-a is a well-loved bash shortcut for goto start-of-line.

I've found keeping a software-engineering logbook very useful at work. Recommend the vim-wiki plugin for this https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki ; in any vim-window the logbook for…

Very cool, but why not use lynx?

This looks really useful, although it doesn't seem to have a dashboard for showing the aggregated results from multiple running daemons.

https://www.duckdns.org/ Duckdns took about 10 minutes to get an access token and setup a cron-job on my raspberry-pi. After ~ 12 months it's worked without issue. Also, FWIW Briti…