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Markdown List Continuation in Helix

One of the gripes I have with Helix is not having automatic list continuation when writing Markdown. Until last week, …

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Feb 2025
1 min

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Reading Simon Willison‘s excellent blog on “Things we learned about LLMs in 2024”, made me realize why we’re not seeing …

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Jan 2025
1 min

A culture of brutal honesty

Insightful linked post from John Gruber on why the AI pin flopped. This bit stood out to me as particularly insightful: …

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Jun 2024
1 min

Mark Apple Music song as favorite in the background

I often listen to Apple Music in the background and sometimes I casually listen to a song I want to add to my favorites. …

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Jan 2024
1 min

New Airpods

Two years ago I replaced my Airpods with the Airpods Pro. The upgrade was significant and necessary, as after 2-3 years, …

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Sep 2022
2 min

Get URL of selected Mailmate messages

One of the features of my favourite email client, Mailmate, is the ability to copy a unique link per message. Upon …

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Aug 2022
1 min

Causes of burnout

Today HBR published an article about some causes of burnout1. One struck a cord with me, and, as a physicist that went …

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Jul 2019
3 min

Open-plan office

I forgot to link to this very good article from David. Having almost 6 kids, I am usually not bothered by noise outside …

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Jul 2019
1 min

Use tab to cycle through Visual Studio Code completion

Sometimes, instead of using NeoVim, I do like to use Visual Studio Code (with Vim keybindings). Visual Studio Code is a …

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Oct 2016
1 min

Normal mode in Vim

I consider myself an advanced Vim user. But I always found annoying the multiple cursors support that Vim has (through …

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Jun 2015
1 min

Stop reading HN, start reading HN newsletter

You have to admit that, even though most of the news point and can be found elsewhere, Hacker News (HN from now on) is a …

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Sep 2011
7 min

Growl.log and Perl

I really like Growl. It’s the kind of thing that ‘just works’, and they do it nicely. It tells me when …

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Apr 2011
2 min

Encrypted backups with Time Machine

If you wish to keep an offsite Time Machine backup in a place which you don’t consider safe (for me it’s my …

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Mar 2011
1 min

LaTeX style tips

Check this out if you use LaTeX. A lot of insightful tips.

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Dec 2010
1 min

How I write an article

Very nice article by Shawn. Take home message: re-writing, re-editing. And repeat. Repeat. Repeat. With respect to this, …

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Sep 2010
1 min

Speaking of emails

If you work a lot with emails, then you should watch (or hear) this talk by Merlin Mann.

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Feb 2010
1 min