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Productivity

Small tools that save time: compiling LaTeX with one Docker command, scripting a barber’s booking check, and the daily rules from a year of cooking.

3 posts tagged with “Productivity”

February 12, 2017

3 min

Xinjiang Shao

Cooking & Coding

A year of cooking unfamiliar cuisines taught me what engineering does: you get good by practicing, reading and failing. Plus the daily rules I set.

Personal Growth Productivity Creativity Learning

October 12, 2015

3 min

Xinjiang Shao

HowdyBarber: A scripting way to check my barber's availability

My barber's booking system had no public API, so I scripted the undocumented one behind their web app — and found it had no authentication at all.

Scripting API Design JavaScript Automation Productivity

August 13, 2015

6 min

Xinjiang Shao

How I used Docker for LaTeX On macOS Yosemite/Sierra

MacTeX is a huge download. How I compile .tex files from any editor with one Docker command, updated for the 2026 rebuild with latexmk and XeLaTeX.

DevOps Docker LaTeX Productivity

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