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Barbarian Meets Coding
Personal blog · barbarianmeetscoding.com/blogprogrammingproductivity
Barbarian Meets Coding is a personal blog at barbarianmeetscoding.com about programming and productivity. Since 2011, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Tracer Bullets for Software Development”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for web development, front-end, UX and developer productivity writing, including a Vim introduction series and a book on learning Vim inside VS Code.
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.
Treatises, articles, tutorials and thoughts on JavaScript, Software and Web Development, User Experience, Philosophy and Life.
Most-linked posts?
- Tracer Bullets for Software Development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-07
What Hacker News says?
Neovim with Lazyvim is pretty good out of the box. In the old days, both Emacs and (Neo)vim although highly extensible, well, it was hard to configure and set up for the things you wanted to do. Now, we have Spacemacs, Doom Emacs and Neovim with Lazy, Packer etc., so I really can have a 1st class "IDE" without needing to learn LISP or Vimscript (or Lua). So you do need a little bit of that to be able to edit the pac…
Comment linking /boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-and-vim/cheatsheet/
on “Lapce”Submitted Thoughts on Interviewing at Big Tech Companies as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI like https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/wizards-use-vim/introdu... but it looks like it is not complete, unless I am mistaken
Comment linking /wizards-use-vim/introduction/
on “Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023)”Submitted How to Write a Game in Under 13 Kb While Taking Care of a Baby as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/ I write mostly about web dev, front-end, ux, dev productivity and whatever I happen to be tinkering with at the moment. All of it with a pinch of fantasy on top ^_^
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on “Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?”Submitted Tracer Bullets for Software Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionfollowing the same topic... http://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/blog/2011/2/23/best-prac...
Comment linking /blog/2011/2/23/best-practices-principles-of-object-oriented-design-classes
on “OO Design Principles Compilation”Submitted Boost Your Coding Fu with Visual Studio Code and Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're using vscode there's a book about learning vim inside it that's worth a look: https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/boost-your-coding-fu-wi... Core pitch: > You may be wondering... Ok. If Vim is so good then... Why not just use Vim instead of Vim inside Visual Studio Code? > Great question! The truth is that setting Vim to work with a feature set similar to modern text editors is not a trivial task. Feature…
Comment linking /boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-and-vim/
on “Ask HN: Is Vim still worth learning?”Submitted How to Write a Game in Under 13 Kb While Taking Care of a Baby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracer Bullets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving Fast with the Core Vim Motions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book: Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim: Introduction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultra Flexible JavaScript Object Oriented Programming with Stamps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Object-oriented JavaScript for C# Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boost Your Productivity With Codealike Insights as a story · 1 points
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