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Andrey Listopadov
Personal blog · andreyor.st/postsprogramming
Andrey Listopadov's personal blog at andreyor.st covers programming. Since 2023, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “You don't need a terminal emulator”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite this blog's posts on Kakoune versus Helix-style modal editors, the Clojure condition system, Fennel for Emacs, and the author's Org and Hugo blogging setup.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Non-Regular Blog
Most-linked posts?
- You don't need a terminal emulator3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-27
- A Programming System3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-20
- Why Kakoune2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-21
- Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-20
- Migrating from Emacs lsp-mode to Eglot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-04
What Hacker News says?
There’s also Kakoune, which is very similar to Helix. See https://andreyor.st/posts/2023-09-20-why-kakoune/
Comment linking /posts/2023-09-20-why-kakoune/
on “Modeless Vim”Submitted Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024) as a story · 146 points
HN discussionWhoa, thank you. You made me look up for 'condition system in Clojure' and I found these: https://andreyor.st/posts/2021-04-17-condition-system-in-clo... https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/mocs6d/common_lisp... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0OEDcAro0
Comment linking /posts/2021-04-17-condition-system-in-clojure/
on “The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]”Submitted We need to talk about parentheses (2020) as a story · 91 points
HN discussionIf so can you reccomend (link here) some of the resources which got you started? FWIW there are blog posts from the same author of the Emacs setup: https://andreyor.st/tags/game1/
Comment linking /tags/game1/
on “Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)”Submitted Gnome is better macOS than macOS as a story · 68 points
HN discussionHe definitely is using Emacs for most of it. He authors his posts in org files, and uses ox-hugo to export to Hugo. I do something similar for my blog, except Pelican is my backend. https://andreyor.st/posts/2022-10-16-my-blogging-setup-with-...
Comment linking /posts/2022-10-16-my-blogging-setup-with-emacs-and-org-mode/
on “Emacs GUI Library”Submitted Fennel libraries as single files (2023) as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSadly, it seems it is just hugo. He mentions hugo in a post[1]. [1]: https://andreyor.st/posts/2020-06-05-managing-background-pro...
Comment linking /posts/2020-06-05-managing-background-processes-from-kakoune/
on “Emacs GUI Library”Submitted Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs GUI Library as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Clojure-lsp with clj-kondo and Refactor-nREPL as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why today's phones are so boooooring? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't need a terminal emulator as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text Editors (2020) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extending Emacs with Fennel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Music Players as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Condition system for Fennel language and Lua runtime as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Music Players (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure on Fennel part three: parsing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure on Fennel part two: immutable.fnl optimizations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Programming System (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Programming System (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from Emacs lsp-mode to Eglot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from LSP-Mode to Eglot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't need a terminal emulator · Andrey Listopadov as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Programming System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Kakoune as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better slopes in AABB collision systems as a story · 1 points
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