njt

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Scheduled Maintenance is not a Thing(medium.com)
2 points by njt 8y ago|0 comments
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by njt 9y ago
Dalrymple is an excellent historian and author. I also highly recommend his first book, "City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Djinns ).
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by njt 10y ago
> I'm lacking motivation to start or finish something I'll stick it on and get going. This. I find that if I am not sure where to start, or not in the mood, using the technique helps me get started and keep focused. If I know w
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by njt 10y ago
Also check out the book "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" by Karl Fogel. He just finished up the 2nd edition and made it freely available online: http://producingoss.com&#x2
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by njt 10y ago
I'm not sure if you use tmux, but the way I do it is to open a new pane below the original, edit what I need to, and then close that pane when I'm done. The original screen remains untouched.
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by njt 10y ago
I tried this service right now and unfortunately, large chunks of their report require you to upgrade to a paid version to read it. mail-tester is free: https://www.mail-tester.com/ (I'm not affiliated with either of t
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by njt 10y ago
Also check out combine. It allows you to combine lines from two files using boolean operations: combine file1 [OPERATION] file2 Where [OPERATION] is one of [and, not, or, xor]. It allows you to quickly pull out interesting data from
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by njt 11y ago
Also check out Vit: http://tasktools.org/projects/vit.html It's a curses based console interface for taskwarrior.
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by njt 13y ago
HackerDB was mentioned in the Q&A session after one of the config management talks at the Usenix LISA conference last week. I'm glad there are tools like this being actively developed. I think perhaps the reason they keep being red