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Kenner is useful when it comes to Ulysses. Also map books. I don't remember using this particular volume but assume there are predecessors https://www.amazon.com/James-Joyce-Ulysse…

also: "I also read Hackers & Painters at an impressionable age and was kind of a jerk about it for a while. This talk is about how despite this, I got better." I've read H&P and a …

related project: https://github.com/joouha/euporie

https://github.com/ivanmaeder/vimv 100%. I use this every day, esp. when editing my music library.

100%. Visidata is great. Easy to pick up, rewarding to power users.

I've asked this previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208 But a few years have past and want to see what's emerged since. Although can be new to you vs. released in…

Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/...

They updated the post with this disclaimer: > Update: This post does not live up to its original title We are building a better Heroku...It should have emphasized the building part…

Happy user of their main app, Koala (a sampler).

I am also very curious about this. I've been keeping track of knowledge mgmt tooling (esp. plain text) and approaches (e.g. ADR) for a couple years. Grand Unified Theory forthcomin…

Believe they're referring to: "Stripe is a celebration of the written word which happens to be incorporated in the state of Delaware. We produce prodigious amounts of it internally…

A few films with an emphasis on dialogue. Made me realize how much can be carried (plot, mood, the whole world of the work of art) by party A and party B doing nothing but talking.…

I learned about some great tools thanks to you. Appreciate it!

I learned about a ton of useful CLIs, desktop apps, and SaaS products from this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887237 ). But it was posted 3 years ago, and perhaps…

From what Mencken book/essay is this quote?

Few ideas: * this one from Paul Graham: you retain more from reading than you think you do http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html * this one from James Somers: actively engage (don't …

which?

I've seen many good resources for SQL but nothing great strictly for ER modeling.

tldr: do/can you read at work? Dan Luu has a great article, 'How I Learned to Program', in which he writes: "I asked if I could expense books and read them at work. This seemed per…

few different prices points and curious about experience with any of them my touchstone on this topic is Patrick McKenzie's article on salary negotiation ( http://www.kalzumeus.com…

clarifications question based on premises: - many people use Sublime for free - many people don't pay bc the asking price is $80 and bc VS Code and are free - many people would pay…

Sublime Text is great, so I suspect many users would happily pay (or donate, if given the choice) $5-20 for the privilege of such a tool. Sublime's asking price is $80, however, an…

Do you think factually incorrect or rather poorly displayed?