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Andy Lee

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Andy Lee writes Notes From Andy, a personal blog at notesfromandy.com about programming and productivity. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link posts from this blog about a chess game that plays random moves and about two-keystroke shortcuts in Keyboard Maestro. The comments describe these projects rather than judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm not quite that bad at chess, but bad enough that I wrote a chess game that plays random moves so I could always beat it: http://www.notesfromandy.com/2016/09/27/chessfidget/ That got boring, so I added very weak AI by connecting to the chess engine that comes preinstalled on macOS (inside Chess.app).

    Comment linking /2016/09/27/chessfidget/

    on “A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI”
  2. Submitted A quick look at Dash for [OS X] documentation browsing as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  3. I love the palette feature, which allows me to create shortcuts exactly two keystrokes long: https://www.notesfromandy.com/2014/08/01/double-hotkeys-with... This feature is just a sliver of all the power of Keyboard Maestro. I'm sure there are many potentially life-changing gems among the features I haven't yet explored.

    Comment linking /2014/08/01/double-hotkeys-with-keyboard-maestro/

    on “Keyboard Maestro 11”
  4. Submitted Quick Intro Notes on the Smalltalk Language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Scene Kit sample code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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