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Increase open file limit on Ubuntu Linux
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Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go
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Size textarea to content
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All about Svelte 5 snippets
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C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF
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Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF
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Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5
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Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript
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Go is 80/20 language
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Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup
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How I made SumatraPDF crash less
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Compressing for the browser in Go
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Ban std::string
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Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go
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Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF
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Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant
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Modern C++
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Software
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5
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Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++
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How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days
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Advanced markdown processing in Go
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Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB
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About me
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I’m a Go freelancer for hire
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Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
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Writings
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Hiding duplicate content from your site via robots.txt
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Logging HTTP requests in Go
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Summary of David Ditzel talk on binary translation
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You have to implement to understand
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Where do bugs come from?
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gflags - a debugging story
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On difference between amateur and professional shareware
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Writing to sell
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How I improved SumatraPDF performance by ~60%
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Marketing lessons from WebP launch
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Value your time
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Using Fabric for deploying server software
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Paradox of bad comments
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Document your software
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SumatraPDF 1.3 released
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Tutorial for CLSS flexbox library for Go
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Writing a custom installer for Windows software
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Engineering and Computer Science in the Real World
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My social marketing failure
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How I sped up Go by 20% (or is Go really slower than Java?)
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Using averages - a common performance measurement mistake
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Speeding up Go with custom allocators
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Design and implementation of translation system for desktop software
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SumatraPDF 2.2 released
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8 habits for becoming a better programmer
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How I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
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SumatraPDF 2.4 released
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Preventing duplicate posts in forum or blog commenting software
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SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released
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Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
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Improving speed of SMAZ compressor by 2.6x/1.5x
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Accessing GitHub API from Go
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Go package for better guid generation
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Extracting files from .7z archives in Go
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The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed
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Embedding binary resources on Windows
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Sumatra PDF is born
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Performance optimization story
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57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
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SumatraPDF 0.6 released
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Sane #include hierarchy for C and C++
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SumatraPDF 0.8.1 release
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Go vs. Python for a simple web server
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The things we do to ship desktop software
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List of ePub format readers and viewers for Windows
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List of mobi format readers and viewers for Windows
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List of website with free eBooks in EPUB and MOBI formats
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SumatraPDF 0.9 released
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The Silver Searcher windows port
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SumatraPDF 1.1 release
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SumatraPDF 1.0 released
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Best captcha is exotic captcha
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filerotate - Go library for rotating files
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Hide header on scroll in Svelte
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How I reverse engineered Notion API
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Using GitHub Actions with Go
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A short guide to marketing for developers
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Diary of a solo dev building a web app
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Big projects written in Go
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Companies using go
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Rewritten - tales of rewriting software from X to Go
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Using MySQL in Docker for local testing in Python
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Essentials of Starting Indie Business
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Finding freelancers
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Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer
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Portable Executable File Format
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Summary of Founders Battle Talk #7 about SEO
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Summary of “Sell to Strangers” video about content marketing
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Summary Of "The Mom test" book about validating business ideas
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Using Go instead of bash for scripts
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Social media image sizes
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Sending emails with Mailgun in Go
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Day 35: fixed onedrive, gdrive token refresh
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Tech note: Dropbox login
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Tech note: JavaScript debugging helpers
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Day 34: more backblaze, refactorings
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Day 33: more backblaze
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Day 11: upload file to local fs
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Day 23: file copy
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Day 32: optimizations, backblaze
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Day 22: file properties
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Day 21: s3 create new dir, last modification time
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Day 31: tweaking bookmarks list
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JavaScript optimization story
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Day 24: dialog refactoring
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Day 20: fs refactoring
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Day 19: analytics, context menu
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Day 18: improving s3 upload
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Day 17: file download
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Day 30: better dialogs
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Day 29: optimizing file representation and s3
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Day 28: OneDrive support, more file properties
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Day 27: better Google Drive login, One Drive support
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Day 26: more google drive support
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Day 16: bookmarks
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Day 0: the idea
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Day 15: text preview
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Day 1: tech stack, creating project from scratch
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Day 2: displaying list of files
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Day 3: Dropbox
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Day 4: s3, sorting, remembering credentials
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Day 5: setting up a website
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Day 6: Dropbox fix, bug fixes and small improvements
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Day 7: context menu, file delete
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Day 8: more file delete, file upload
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Day 9: Dropbox upload
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Day 10: s3 file delete, ui tweaks
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Day 14: image preview, file rename
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Day 12: s3 upload and delete directories
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Day 13: local fs fixes
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Programmer productivity: lines of code edition
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Filerion marketing
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Thoughts on getting user feedback
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Filerion tech stack
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Thoughts on documentation
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Using Roam Research for productivity
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Thoughts on developer productivity
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S3 and directories
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Upload files from your computer
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Pure Bash Bible
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atomicfile - robustly writing to a file in Go
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Vim Reference
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Using Notion API Go client
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siser
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Fuzzing Markdown parser written in Go
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Pigz windows port
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Go Cookbook
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Experience porting 4.5k loc of C to Go (Facebook's CSS flexbox implementation Yoga)
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3 ways to iterate in Go
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Using MySQL in Docker for local testing In Go
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Rotate log files daily in Go
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Simple serialization format for logging and analytics in Go
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HTTPS for free in Go, with little help of Let's Encrypt
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Advanced command execution in Go with os/exec
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Generating good unique ids in Go
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Embedding build number in Go executable
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Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories
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