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Brian P. Hogan

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Brian P. Hogan's personal blog at bphogan.com covers programming and writing. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked only as a rough video of music made in Ableton Live's Session view, offered in answer to a question about music prototyping tools. The comments do not discuss the writing.

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.

I’m Brian P. Hogan, a technical content expert, software developer, teacher, and musician. I am the author of several books including Write Better with Vale, tmux 3, Small, Sharp Software Tools, and Exercises For Programmers. When I’m not writing or teaching, I’m making music.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Ableton Live with the Session view is how I make my music. In fact, here's a stupid rough video of how I do my stuff. http://www.bphogan.com/files/videos/livesession.mov

    Comment linking /files/videos/livesession.mov

    on “Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions?”
  2. Submitted Make Your Writing More Approachable for Learners as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Working with Claude Code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Rethink Front End Development with Elm as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted My Writing Workflow as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Moving on from DigitalOcean as a story · 1 points

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