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Blogs on Gmarik Info
Personal blog · gmarik.info/blogprogramming
Blogs on Gmarik Info is a personal blog at gmarik.info about programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why I Stopped Contributing to Vundle (2014)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link gmarik.info posts on Vim plugins and dotfile setup, and a 2014 post explaining why the author stopped contributing to a Vim plugin project after a dispute over NeoBundle.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
personal notes, sort of.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I Stopped Contributing to Vundle (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-25
What Hacker News says?
Sorry, the way I phrased that was sloppy. I should have said, "main author abandoned, saying NeoBundle ripped off code." http://www.gmarik.info/blog/2014/why-i-stopped-contributing-...
Comment linking /blog/2014/why-i-stopped-contributing-to-vundle/
on “History and Effective Use of Vim”Submitted Why I stopped contributing to Vundle as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe rage these days seems to be to keep your own dotfiles repo, complete with some kind of install mechanism. My own is here [1] but it covers my whole homedir, not just VIM. I use Rake tasks (originally inspired by @holman, I believe) for install / update / clean. There is a bootstrapping problem when using Vundle with many plugins [2]. The only way to have your Vundles install cleanly the first time is to split up…
Comment linking /blog/2011/05/17/chicken-or-egg-dilemma
on “Plugins you should put in your vimrc”Submitted Go's testing package side-effects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Stopped Contributing to Vundle (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion