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I've been using Emacs as my editor for the last decade or so. I used it for general purpose editing for the first 6 years because I was doing C# development (Web/a bit of Xamarin) …

I think it's mostly about drinking too much Kool-Aid of owning my data. But probably because ttrss's pretty nice with quite a few plugins, so I can mold it based on what interests …

Yes. Self hosting tt-rss[1] and using it for close to an year now. No problem what so ever; It's so low maintenance that I would've quite possibly forgotten about it if I wasn't re…

And I find it equally interesting to think about what happened to Google Books project after half the world was entering text into captchas perhaps close to a decade? Is the projec…

I've started dipping my toes in Rust and Elixir. Rust because of the concepts like borrow checker, highly strict compiler, traits etc. Elixir because it is based on Erlang and is h…

These posts can get your ball rolling. The first one is pretty detailed, I started with copy-pasting a large hunk of code from it and using as is. Once you get the hang of it, the …

I am reading the book "Apprenticeship Patterns" by Dave Hoover & Adewale Oshineye. It's a very interesting book and lists a set of patterns which (novice?) software developers can …

This is really impressive. Thanks for posting it. This website tells the truth when it says that following the deep work ritual is a pain. I've read the book and wholeheartedly agr…

I've tried a lot of different time slots and so far only two have worked for me: 1. Wake up 1.5hr earlier than my family. This gives me around 1.15hrs of solid focused time. The do…

+1 for i3. I have a 13" laptop as my primary driver and using i3 is so much faster & convenient on such a small screen. Though I have made 2 changes to my workflow to get better ou…

I had the same frustration with org when I started, which has since disappeared and I keep working with saving the screenshots and linking them to my docs. :| Anyhow, some time ago…

The problem with this is that the bootloader is now becoming more and more locked down and the consumers have to jump ever more hoops to unlock it. Some years ago I had Samsung S2 …

Assuming the mails are still online with the mail provider, I think that copying that data on local disk, indexing and then running queries on it should work. Doing this locally wi…

My new HDD started having problems in just 1.5 years.I just salvaged an old HDD from my dad's 9 year old laptop (Dell Vostro) and used it. This old laptop is what I would go to whe…

There are two ways of using email addresses, either use something like abc@gmail.com, abc@fastmail.com or use your own custom domain like me@customdomain.com. Given that any email …

Thanks! I really appreciate your insightful comments.

Can you please explain what would be the best option to break out of the rut when one is mostly working on his/her own and doing a lot of suboptimal learning? I frequently find mys…

That's my story as well. I tried the Anki plugin and didn't find it as per my taste. Now incremental reading for me is a multi-monitor and multipass approach. One monitor has Anki,…

Since we are talking about Emacs now, there's a package[1] for Anki just like everything else in Emacs. :) This basically connects to a background server of Anki, you create a card…

Also worth reading is the excellent (and pretty extensive) article by Michael Nielsen[1] showcasing how he used Anki to create an in-depth knowledge about AlphaGo. Personally, I've…

The problem that I personally see, at least with Netflix India, is that finding content is like finding needle in a haystack. Some time back (last year or so), they were showing IM…

As an extension to your comment, here's a decent advice which is based on the principle of DeepWork. https://azeria-labs.com/the-importance-of-deep-work-the-30-h... So basically, i…

Not to counter your point, but I had that new remarkably stupid ":( Oops something went wrong" error popping up the morning I had to give a presentation. I have Windows 10 Home and…