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According to Cordell is a personal blog at blog.mikecordell.com about programming and design. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Better project environment management with direnv and asdf (2021)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2022–2022first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post about moving from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf for managing language runtimes. The only comment cites direnv as a complement to such tools.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Better project environment management with direnv and asdf (2021)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Everything was fine until I kinda felt my config.fish file got bloated and somehow nvm was kinda slowing down my shell startup. I'm quite happy with direnv to avoid this problem. https://direnv.net/ Funny enough, it was submitted to HN most recently just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908321 direnv is complementary to the various language-version tools, so it obviates needing asdf: https://githu…

    Comment linking /2021/12/18/better-project-environment-management-with-direnv-and-asdf/

    on “Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf”
  2. Submitted Text Aesthetics: Command Line UI/UX as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Better project environment management with direnv and asdf (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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