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Ben Swift
Personal blog · benswift.me/blog · on HN as benswiftprogrammingai
Ben Swift's personal blog at benswift.me covers programming and ai. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ben Swift's blog for the documentation of the Extempore live-coding Lisp project and a post on running Claude Code in Zed. The links are cited as sources, not praised.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ben Swift — making AI legible at human scale
Most-linked posts?
- /extempore-docs/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-30
What Hacker News says?
I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more…
Comment linking /blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-within-zed/
on “Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed”Submitted Mapping over table rows in org-mode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in this then you should definitely checkout extempore: https://github.com/digego/extempore http://benswift.me/extempore-docs/index.html
Comment linking /extempore-docs/index.html
on “Praxis – A live coding environment based on Lua, Lisp and Forth”Submitted The great 2025 email yak-shave: O365 and mbsync and mu and neomutt and msmtp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis was an interesting read, the focus on time reminded me of the Extempore project (see [1] and [2]). I wonder when this article was posted? Along with the Eve announcement it seems there's a lot to look forward to for the future of live programming. [1] http://extempore.moso.com.au/ [2] http://benswift.me/extempore-docs/
Comment linking /extempore-docs/
on “A Live Programming Experience”Submitted On Livecoding Annotations and Visualisations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://benswift.me/ Plus a bit of the colophon history in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/12/03/blog-archaeology
Comment linking /blog/2025/12/03/blog-archaeology
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”There have been two posts about it long time ago but they went completely unnoticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125339 I personally am very impressed about it. The github address is: https://github.com/digego/extempore Documentation: http://benswift.me/extempore-docs/ And according to Google Groups it seems to be active: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/…
Comment linking /extempore-docs/
on “Extempore - statically typed, GC-less, JIT compiled lisp dialect”