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Bill Farmer
Personal blog · billthefarmer.github.io/blogprogramming
Bill Farmer's personal blog at billthefarmer.github.io covers programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for Bill Farmer's open-source Android apps, Diary and Editor, and a post comparing Java and Kotlin for Android development. Commenters cite the app pages as alternatives and the post as reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 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?
Nice! I will have to give this a try as an alternative to Diary: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.billthefarmer.diary/ https://billthefarmer.github.io/diary/ https://github.com/billthefarmer/diary
Comment linking /diary/
on “Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted”As a person who is just starting to learn Kotlin for Android Development, Can you please tell me which language is better to pursue for android development? I also recently read this https://billthefarmer.github.io/blog/android-kotlin/ adding to dilemma of choice.
Comment linking /blog/android-kotlin/
on “Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?”.txt and .md files in a folder I sync with Syncthing, and edit with Sublime Text 3 on my desktop machines, and Editor[1] on my phone. I create a file per topic, e.g., `ruby.md`, `docker.md`, `cooking.md`, and switch quickly between files using Ctrl + P in Sublime Text. [1] https://billthefarmer.github.io/editor/
Comment linking /editor/
on “Ask HN: What's your note-taking methodology?”