- Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
by Kyle Lambert
Kyle Lambert wrote about turning a Tuff Shed into a home office for about $20k.
- Sticker: We do not test on animals, we test in production
by Florian Kohler
O.G.. Backup Copy
- How to Run with Perfect Form (YouTube)
by RunnaTV
"And the more we drive our hips forward, the faster we start to run. And as a result, our heel comes up behind us more. We're driving those hips." - Programming Still Sucks
by Steven Langbroek
This story is so good. It was inspired by this Programming Sucks from 2014. - Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
by Thienan Tran
It was fun reading Thienan's story/experiment/challenge about talking to strangers at the gym. After reading it, I regret not doing something like this years ago. - Emma Goto Posts tagged #blog
by Emma Goto
Posts about blogging and building a blog by Emma. - How I use Obsidian
by Steph Ango
How the CEO of Obsidian uses his own note taking application. - Concrete Laptop Stand
by Sam Burns
Not exactly my aesthetic, but a pretty cool project! - neatocal
by AbeTusk
A handy single page calendar via HN. GitHub - Blogosphere — the frontpage of the indie web
by Ramkarthik
Blogosphere is an aggregator that fetches the latest posts from over 1,000 indie web blogs. - Worrying well: how to bring wisdom to your worries
by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
The difference between worry, anxiety, and stress. - Spatchcock Chicken Butchery
by ChefSteps
My favorite way to cook a chicken. - Paste to Markdown
by Euan Goddard
Paste anything to markdown. - Table to Markdown
by John Franey
Paste a table to markdown. - Presidio - Data Protection and De-identification SDK
by Data Privacy Stack (previously Microsoft)
"An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines."
- Universal POST*CODE® DataBase
by Universal Postal Union (UPU)
POSTCODE® DataBase, General Addressing Issues for info required fields for different countries, Postal addressing systems in member countries and/or territories shows example addresses and explanations of the different components required for different fields.
- Statistics for Hackers (PyCon 2016)
by Jake Vanderplas
"If you can write a for loop, you can do statistics." - Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?
by William Oncken, Jr. and Donald L. Wass
I ask myself this question at least once a day. PDF - The Monospace Web: A minimalist design exploration
by Oskar Wickström
Clean and simple. I like it. - My Official Ranking of The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes on the Internet
by Alex (Lily P Crumbs)
35+ chocolate chip cookie recipes baked and ranked. - Don't @ Me Stickers
by Rob Knight
Don't know, don't care, Don't @ Me - 45 Small Quick Doodles to Draw When Bored
by Shihori Obata
Fun, quick doodle inspiration. - How I write Django views
by Kevin Renskers
Halfway between function and class-based views. You get class inheritance without all the magic of Django's delivered class based views.
- How to Speak (YouTube)
by Patrick Winston
Love this lecture on public speaking.
- Thrashing
by Mike Hoye
I too get frustrated with unproductive tools and unprioritized tasks.
- Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook (PDF)
by JamesG
I found an excellent series of posts about technical writing by Jamesg. They were combined into this book.
- How to make backups of PostgreSQL?
by Hubert Lubaczewski
Much easier to use and reason about than the "official" PostgreSQL Wiki Backup scripts. There's also a more recent, efficient version.
- Postgres Full Text Search is better than ... (Part 1)
by Adam Cooper
Great example and progression of PostgeSQL full text search (FTS) features. Series: 1, 2
- When Are You Ready To Write A Technical Book?
by Dan Moore
tl;dr: write 10 blog posts on the topic first.
- Index card productivity systems
by u/PecanPlan
Reddit comment with a roundup of index card productivity systems. 1 2 3 4 5
- You should not be displaying relative dates
by Aaron Parecki
Display a real date, not "4 days ago".
- Decoupling database migrations from server startup: why and how
by Itamar Turner-Trauring
Why? Reduce production problems.
- Securing Go HTTP webservers
by Jan Pieter Bruins Slot
A VERY technical article about the settings and configuration to secure Go HTTP webservers. (timeouts, TLS, and secure headers)
- Different ways of working with SQL Databases in Go
by Alex Pliutau
Pros, cons, and examples of 4 different ways to use SQL databases in Go. (database/sql, sqlx, GORM, sqlc). (My favorite is sqlc).
- 2025 HR Strategy Resources (LinkedIn Post)
by Esther AbraaS
Helpful links to 2025 HR Strategy resources. Gartner - Top 5 Priorities for HR Leaders in 2025 Lattice - 2025 State of People Strategy Report 6 Foundations to build a future-proof HR strategy in start-ups by JooBee Yeow Gartner Playbook for Increasing HR's Strategic Impact Gartner - 5 Steps to Building an HR Strategy Leapsome - A complete guide to effective HR strategy planning (& a free template!)
- Sensible SQLite defaults
by Brian Douglas
In case I ever have a website that gets enough traffic to actually need this.
- A Developer's Guide to SAML (YouTube)
by Nick Gamb, Okta
This SAML explanation really clicked for me.
- jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering
by David Crawshaw
JSON file database for small Go projects. github.com/crawshaw/jsonfile
- templatemaker
by Adrian Holovaty
Python library to extract unique data from temmplated files (a.k.a. webpages). Google Code Archive
- Pomodoro Technique
by Francesco Cirillo
Besides a to-do list, my most used prodoctivity technique.
- Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation
by Dan Slimmon
Be a nerd; code your checklist.
