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Jupiter Applet

‘Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux. It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection.’

linux power battery
19 hours ago

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MI5 warn open-plan offices ‘raise bomb risk’

See? I told you they were a bad idea.

work office safety security
2 days ago

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Japanese for Programmers
japanese programming vocabulary
2 days ago

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rakarrack

Linux guitar effects.

linux audio guitar effects music
8 days ago

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Arduino Guitar Pedal
music guitar effects pedal
8 days ago

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Unfuck Your Habitat

‘Terrifying motivation for lazy people with messy homes.’ And, as you can see, quite sweary.

housing home clutter minimalism
8 days ago

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Get Rake to always show the error stack trace for your project

Well, that’s a bit more useful, isn‘t it?

ruby rake rails
8 days ago

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Olympic Defence: the Unofficial London 2012 Security Game

‘Click to make the Olympic Mascots fire their roof-mounted missiles! Aim for terrorists, protestors, and any illegal advertising!’

olympics london humour
9 days ago

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Command and Control and the Developer Artist

‘Although the essence of Agile is self-organisation it has become something perversely imposed from above in a command and control manner.’

programming agile
9 days ago

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Always Together: The Documentary

‘From the first Mento record ever recorded on the island to the continuing popularity of performers like Black Chiney today, Chinese-Jamaicans have played a tremendous but little-recognized role in the development and spread of Jamaican music.’

music jamaica china reggae
9 days ago

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T by sferik

Command-line Twitter client.

twitter cli
11 days ago

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Writing a CV in LaTeX

Nice simple introduction.

latex
11 days ago

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London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee's favor

Seems grimly appropriate to such an absurd festival of vested interest.

olympics london tfl
11 days ago

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git playback

Script that creates a slideshow from commits to specified files.

git presentation vcs
11 days ago

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Internal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired

Why it's not a moral failing to get up late, despite the ugly fascism of early-rising cultural supremacists.

sleep society science
13 days ago

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Why Linux

‘I realize I’ve spent far more down-time un-fucking b0rked packages [on OS X] than I ever did trying to get Linux to talk to my wifi card.’

linux osx
14 days ago

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Learning to use the V-USB (AVR USB firmware) library
avr usb microcontroller electronics
15 days ago

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Shearing FireSheep with the Cloud | Stratum Security Blog

Instructions for setting up your own VPN.

vpn ec2 aws security linux
24 days ago

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ctrlp.vim

‘Full path fuzzy file, buffer, mru and tag finder for Vim.’ Written in vimscript, so it doesn’t need Vim to have been compiled with any special options.

vim editor
25 days ago

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Ego Depletion
psychology willpower
26 days ago

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Japanese Dictionaries Guide
japanese dictionary language
29 days ago

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stormfs

Mount S3 (and similar) as a local filesystem using FUSE.

fuse linux s3 filesystem
4 weeks ago

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ITADAKI_ZEN in LONDON

Japanese vegan restaurant.

food restaurants london
4 weeks ago

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PostgreSQL most useful extensions

Some of these look very useful: image manipulation; joins on remote data sources; TeX integration.

postgresql database
4 weeks ago

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Avería – The Average Font

Surprisingly beautiful.

fonts typography
4 weeks ago

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rtl-sdr

‘DVB-T dongles based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as a cheap [Software Defined Radio]’. Really cheap: under £20.

sdr radio
5 weeks ago

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Scala School

‘Scala school was started as a series of lectures at Twitter to prepare experienced engineers to be productive Scala programmers.’

programming scala education tutorial
5 weeks ago

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QArt Codes

Cunning manipulation of QR code data to produce codes that are also recognisable pictures.

qrcode
5 weeks ago

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Why Generation Y is Causing the Great Migration of the 21st Century

‘the car is no longer a great convenience if it takes a 20 minute trip to buy a quart of milk’. On the movement of young Americans from suburbs to cities.

us society cities
5 weeks ago

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ZFS on Linux

Reported to work very well, although you must compile it yourself as the ZFS and Linux licences prohibit distribution of compiled binaries.

linux zfs filesystem
5 weeks ago

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Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously?

Shortly to become very useful if you live in the UK.

internet anonymity privacy vpn
6 weeks ago

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Next Generation Ruby packages for Ubuntu

Ruby 1.9.3 with patches, ready packaged.

linux ruby ubuntu
6 weeks ago

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Help preserve Library Genesis in three steps

Interesting approach: massively distribute the catalogue so that it can’t easily be taken down.

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The war on terror is corrupting all it touches
corruption terrorism uk
6 weeks ago

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Resources for allies

‘The following resources offer suggestions for how allies (including men) can support women in geek communities.’

feminism technology equality
6 weeks ago

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Should we estimate software projects… at all?

‘I’ve now finally come to the conclusion that the use of estimation of any kind in a project is not only a waste of time but is actually destructive.’ I’ve thought the same for some time.

agile programming estimation project management
6 weeks ago

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Ve - A linguistic framework you can use

Transliteration and part-of-speech tagging for Japanese and English (at present).

language linguistics japanese english ruby
6 weeks ago

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arepas

Illustrated recipe.

food recipes venezuela
6 weeks ago

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The Newbie’s Guide to Learning Clojure
clojure programming
6 weeks ago

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Tomahawk

Open-source, cross-platform music player that can play music from a variety of sources, including Spotify, YouTube, etc.

music player audio mp3 linux software
6 weeks ago

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The Hack Day Manifesto

‘So you’re organising a hack day or hackathon? Here are some basic requirements to make your event a success, and avoid the common pitfalls that could otherwise ruin it.’

hackday manifesto development
6 weeks ago

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Mosh: the mobile shell

‘Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.‘ Works over SSH in a terminal.

ssh unix linux terminal
6 weeks ago

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PHP: a fractal of bad design

Read this, and then never, ever use PHP for anything new ever again.

php programming rant webdev
6 weeks ago

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So you want to try switching to Ubuntu?

Good advice.

linux ubuntu
7 weeks ago

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Love Hotels and Unicode
unicode japan emoji fonts language
7 weeks ago

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I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

Why workplace regulation matters.

work us employment
7 weeks ago

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Girls and Computers

‘In some ways, it is like the very ubiquity of technology has led us back to a world where socially normative gender roles take hold all over again’.

computing technology society gender sexism
8 weeks ago

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Cache them if you can
webdev caching http
9 weeks ago

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Picture Hanging

A nice analogy for programmer education.

programming
9 weeks ago

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Strong Parameters

‘With this plugin Action Controller parameters are forbidden to be used in Active Model mass assignments until they have been whitelisted.’

rails security webdev
9 weeks ago

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OH HAI SEXISM

Awful exchange on Twitter, collected and explained.

sexism twitter
9 weeks ago

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The Budget: how will it affect fictional people?

‘She will not be affected by the budget, for she is a horror older than time itself, and she was not in the 50p tax band.’

humour uk government
9 weeks ago

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PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: hstore

‘This module implements the hstore data type for storing sets of key/value pairs within a single PostgreSQL value.’

database nosql sql postgresql
10 weeks ago

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The Unwelcome Mat

‘[A] 2006 survey by the U.S. Travel Association […] found that foreign travelers were more afraid of United States immigration officials than of terrorism or crime.’

travel us border immigration
10 weeks ago

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Blocked on Weibo

‘What's not allowed on China's version of Twitter’.

china chinese censorship internet
10 weeks ago

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Bring back the 40-hour work week

‘In fact, research shows that knowledge workers actually have fewer good hours in a day than manual laborers do — on average, about six hours, as opposed to eight.’

work employment
10 weeks ago

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Will Resurrecting a Mammoth Be Possible?

I really hope the answer’s yes.

mammoths biology cloning
10 weeks ago

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How Apple.com will serve retina images to new iPads

Image replacement using JavaScript, consistent URLs, and HEAD requests.

webdev javascript hires ipad apple images
10 weeks ago

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BBC Radio iPhone Streams

Direct links to BBC Radio streams. Good for more than iPhones.