I keep a small R project that runs nightly, processes about 40,000 rows of CSV data, and ships the cleaned output to a Postgres database (an open-source relational database management system). Last…
I needed a new BitTorrent client this month, and the choice was harder than I expected. There are at least 13 actively maintained graphical clients in the open-source world, and they make…
Word does not have a “Duplicate Page” button. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. The closest thing is a series of workarounds that range from “select and copy” (the obvious…
Stop Letting AI Grep Through JAR Files Last Tuesday I watched Copilot CLI unzip a JAR file into /tmp and grep through .class files for a method signature. The thing is, that…
Weathr: Check the Weather From Your Terminal With One Command I live in a terminal. I live in the terminal the way some people live in their email inbox: it is the…
Git’s Magic Files: The Hidden Configuration That Travels With Your Repo Git has a layer of files that most developers never touch. The layer is called “dotfiles” (the files that start with…
Claude Code: The Agentic Coding Tool for the Terminal That Actually Ships Claude Code is Anthropic’s CLI for Claude. The tool runs in your terminal. It can read files, edit files, run…
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