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kleff··on Redis Insight: GUI App for Redis
I just wish they focused on getting it a bit snappier, its so sluggish at times. Instead i keep going back to RESP.app since its so much quicker.
kleff··on Goodbye, Twilio
Sinch? LinkMobility?
kleff··on BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due
Programmer's Notepad is amazing, its been my goto in Windows for well over a decade at this point. Has everything I need without any bloat, also work fine on large files (I often do regex-searches on huge log files with it).
kleff··on I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
It was definitely xkill, I remember using it a lot during the early Ubuntu releases. I think the shortcut was ctrl-alt-esc, but its so long ago it was removed I no longer know for sure.
kleff··on Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
Satisfactory is really great, highly recommended from me as well. I think the verticality really adds a lot of fun over Factorio where you are restricted to keeping everything on the same level. Can make some really confusing spaghetti though...
kleff··on How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017)
X-series is always a safe bet if you want something a bit more portable than the T-series, but with the same build quality. I don't know about the newest (x280), but I'm rocking the previous X270 and I'm really happy with it.

I also never see people mention it, but the L-series feels a bit underrated. I handled some older ones the other day and was super impressed by the build quality. I think they go for like half the price of T-s too.

kleff··on Somebody just won 310 BTC ($2M): Bitcoin Challenge solved within 8 days
Must be really cool to win something like that, but how hard would be to convert this back to normal funds again? Would any of the coin exchanges allow you to just withdraw $2M?
kleff··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
I was really hoping 2.0 would include the integrated e-mail client they teased a looong time ago. By now I think that is the only feature I still miss from the Opera 12 days.
kleff··on Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015)
Wait, so they don't turn off the planes when not in use?
kleff··on Julia 1.0
Even Visual Basic (of all things) allowed you to set it with Option Base. Never really understood why its not supported in more languages...
kleff··on Social Media: An Apology
>John Gabriel's Great Internet Fuckwad Theory

I think facebook has easily proven that the anonymity part of that equation is _very_ optional.

kleff··on Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
Obligatory: https://jspaint.app/#session:test
kleff··on Laws of UX
Tesler's law really rings true in non-UX environments too. I have worked with several people insisting that you can somehow remove complexity by wrapping it in more levels of abstraction, which is utterly infuriating. Sometimes you really just have to accept that certain things are complex, and deal with it.
kleff··on ASCIIFlow Infinity
Pretty cool, but the text tool really needs some figlet-like functionality with fonts and outlines!
kleff··on Investing in “Magic” Cards
Seconding this! I have no interest in ever playing Magic or any other collectible card game, but I still love watching his videos.
kleff··on Learn just enough Linux to get things done
I've just never understood why tar can't have sane defaults like zip. Why do you need three or four cryptic arguments to do the most basic use case?

Its like find. I try to remember the stupid syntax and just give up and use locate instead.

kleff··on Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code
Anyone using VS Code for Java projects here? How does it hold up compared to something like Eclipse or IntelliJ?
kleff··on Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018
G402 is the MX518/G400 successor. Same shape with a much better sensor, and it's not very expensive either.
kleff··on Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
For packages wouldn't selling a mailbox with this smart lock system make much more sense than full access to the entire house?
kleff··on Gmail Launches Add-ons
Seconding Aquamail, by far the best email client I've used for Android.
kleff··on Interesting commands for the Linux shell
Never knew about readlink for files, but I use

  pwd -P 
all the time to get the real full path (no symlinks) of the current directory. Really easy to remember as well, Print Working Directory.
kleff··on Opera is Reborn
The core team in Oslo got laid off after the webkit switch in 2013, not sure how many remained in the other teams. But as far as I know there is nothing but sales and admin left in Norway now.
kleff··on Wrapping up Java 9 new Features
Has there been any hints of adding default parameters to Java at some point? It's one of those things I find really useful in Python or C#, but for some reason never seems to find its way into Java.