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First, let me give you a bit of background. At my company we’re looking for a way to create and share internal documentation with a git and Markdown-based documentation service. The reasons behind these choices are that (1) Markdown is simple to use and all the developers know how to use it; and (2) a git-based service will help us track documentation changes and agree on improvements by using pull requests and “doc reviews” before merging any changes....

Online privacy is a complicated topic. Even as an experienced programmer and self-proclaimed privacy nerd, protecting your online data is a brutal war to fight. While I believe that unless you go live in the woods without Internet connectivity, it is impossible to protect 100% of your digital life, we can take some steps to limit what personal information companies can collect and track. What follows is a short starter guide I compiled drawing from years of learning about privacy and tinkering with different apps and services....

As I've been struggling to choose what book to read next, I decided to use a process that has helped me a lot in the past but have never written down. So here it is, in case you find yourself in a similar struggle: Filter by age. Per the Lindy Effect the longer a book has been in print, the more timeless wisdom it contains. I try to only read books that have been in print for ten years or longer....

Going out for a run is easy. An aspect of running that I love is that I don't need any special equipment. With just a decent pair of sneakers and some sports clothes, I can just go out the door and get my daily run wherever I may be. The problem, of course, is repetition. For running to become an integral part of your routine you need to make it a habit....

As a reader and consumer of digital information, one problem I've often had has been about storage and retrieval of links I want to read. I'm not one to keep hundreds of open tabs in my browser so I've experimented with lots of "read-it-later" apps. This year alone, I've cycled through just using my browser's builtin Bookmarks manager to Pocket, Instapaper, and now, WorldBrain's Memex. At their core these apps do almost the same: they provide a browser extension so that you can easily save a link for later, a search box so you can filter through all your links, and they have highlighting features so you can extract the relevant parts of what you read....