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Bad Byte Bootstrap Blues
Personal blog · badbyteblues.blogspot.comprogramminggames
Bad Byte Bootstrap Blues is a personal blog at badbyteblues.blogspot.com about programming and games. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Hippie Expand and Autocompletion in Emacs”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment quotes the post's keyboard and typing remarks and teases about Emacs. Readers seem to link it for the debate over typing skill versus programming and editor shortcuts.
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.
General rambling about game development and design by a professional games developer. Pickings at Python, complaints about C, lashings of Lisp, and whatever else is the language du jour.
Most-linked posts?
- Hippie Expand and Autocompletion in Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-09
What Hacker News says?
"For" was on the F key, "Next" was on the N key - made for pretty fast typing once you got used to it. Okay, I've been trying to control my inner lecturer but now I'm just going to come out and say it: You need to learn emacs. The features you're describing have been built into my text editor for years , and they could be yours today ! (Cue the dancing girls and the fabulous music!) The emacs term for a feature that…
Comment linking /2007/12/hippie-expand-and-autocompletion-in.html
on “We Are Typists First, Programmers Second”Submitted LISP:ASDF for the slightly confused as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A micro manual for Lisp in C++ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hippie Expand and Autocompletion in Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion