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Arjen Wiersma

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Arjen Wiersma's personal blog at arjenwiersma.nl covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “22 Years of Emacs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

Linked in an Ask HN thread asking for personal blogs. The one comment says the author writes about their thesis, hacking and AI.

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.

A blog on Emacs, self-hosting, programming and other nerdy things

Most-linked posts?

  1. 22 Years of Emacs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://www.arjenwiersma.nl I write about my thesis, hacking and AI at the moment.

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    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  2. Submitted 22 Years of Emacs as a story · 29 points

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  3. Submitted 22 Years of Emacs as a story · 7 points

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