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Andrei Marukovich
Personal blog · lunarfrog.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Andrei Marukovich's personal blog at lunarfrog.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for Windows development notes, such as WinRT storage access and the ESENT storage engine, and for Taggedfrog, a file-tagging tool for Windows.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Taggedfrog does something very similar on Windows, except it uses a drag and drop GUI instead of the shell. You can have ready made customized tag clusters (so you don't have to type the tags for each file), and it will tag anything, including web URLs. http://lunarfrog.com/taggedfrog/ That said, I would like to be able to tag and recall from the command line in order to integrate tags with other tools. Windows alre…
Comment linking /taggedfrog/
on “TMSU is a tool for tagging your files”- ct · 2013-02-24
Submitted State of the Windows Store, February 2013 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion ESENT is a low level API with C interface. It doesn’t matter on which platform you call those API. The differences are negligible. The main one — restriction on which parts of file system are writeable, on UWP you want to place your DB somewhere in ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder As for a starting point, I can confirm sample code from there http://lunarfrog.com/blog/extensible-storage-engine works OK with Window…
Comment linking /blog/extensible-storage-engine
on “Show HN: I Ported LevelDB to Universal Windows Platform”Apparently, yes, as long as they declare it in the manifest: http://lunarfrog.com/blog/2011/10/03/winrt-storage-overview/
Comment linking /blog/2011/10/03/winrt-storage-overview/
on “Dropbox releases Windows 8 client”I've thought about this a little. The 3 options I could think of, along with their issues: 1. Using an OS's comments/metadata field to store tags and include them in a desktop-search program -- the comments/metadata field is not compatible between operating systems and can be lost while copying files between filesystems or operating systems, so this is not a robust solution. And currently only OS X supports comments…
Comment linking /taggedfrog
on “Make tags not trees - filesystem based on tags instead of directories”