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Andrew Brookins

Personal blog · andrewbrookins.com · on HN as abrookinsprogrammingwriting

Andrew Brookins's personal blog at andrewbrookins.com covers programming and writing. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “One Year Later: Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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13mentions?
11HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Andrew Brookins for a long review of PyCharm 3 written from a Vim user's perspective. The only comment is a bare pointer to that review, with no judgment of the writing.

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.

The collected essays of Andrew Brookins, published from 2009 to the present.

The author on HN?

abrookins · 84 karma · member since 2011

Author of The Temple of Django Database Performance - https://spellbookpress.com/books/temple-of-django-database-performance/ Writes at andrewbrookins.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. One Year Later: Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-15
  2. Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. Detailed review of PyCharm - Review of PyCharm 3 from a Vim User’s Perspective http://andrewbrookins.com/tech/one-year-later-an-epic-review...

    Comment linking /tech/one-year-later-an-epic-review-of-pycharm-2-7-from-a-vim-users-perspective/

    on “Write Clean, Professional, Maintainable, Quality Code in Python”
  2. Submitted Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019 as a story · 123 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted One Year Later: Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective as a story · 79 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Rule of Three (2017) as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted One Year Later: An Epic Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Building Implicit Interfaces in Python with Protocol Classes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Can You Write Code on an iPad? (2017) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Even better GNU Screen as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Reading List for an Apprentice Web Developer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Using Windows 10 and the Surface Book 2 for Web Development as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Instant Django Dev Environments with Tmux, Tmuxinator, and Virtualenvwrapper as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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