Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you
while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks
on my LinkDing, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.
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Ok, maybe everyone knew creating slide-based presentations was part of the Gdocs suite already, but if I saw it before I’d never bothered to explore it. I’m impressed, this is a great alternative to PowerPoint, especially if you’re collaborating cross-platform.
Similar to hyper-key hacks, this app lets you launch or switch to an app by pressing any configured key while holding down spacebar. Via Maarten den Braber via Paul Vantees.
You know those CPU meters with often-confusing percentages that we all like to put on our desktop and Today widgets? Here’s what it really means, and also why it’s not the measure you think it is, especially as a developer.
Simply a “guide to learn bash.” If you want to get into more command line work and bash scripting, this is an excellent compendium of the basics. Also see Peter Stephenson’s “A User’s Guide to the Z-Shell.”
I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. If you’ve ever argued about spaces vs tabs, well, “It took me years to find the right answers but I’ve finally done it and it turns out the answer is…”
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