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C'est la Z
Personal blog · cestlaz.github.ioprogramming
C'est la Z is a personal blog at cestlaz.github.io about programming. Since 2014, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “'Using Emacs' Series”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, 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 Mike Zamansky's blog as a beginner-friendly Emacs resource, alongside his YouTube videos. Posts on Emacs features such as TRAMP come up often.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- 'Using Emacs' Series4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-07-29
- Using Emacs 63 ClojureScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-09
What Hacker News says?
Also check out https://cestlaz.github.io/stories/emacs/
Comment linking /stories/emacs/
on “Emacs 26.2 Released”Submitted 'Using Emacs' Series as a story · 262 points
HN discussionstart with using graphical Emacs on your platform of choice. Avoid using Emacs through a text terminal, to begin with ... then start with Absolute Beginners Guide to Emacs http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-gui... follow up with Emacs' tutorial and online help follow up with Mike Zamansky videos on YouTube https://cestlaz.github.io/stories/emacs/ finally check out the blog entries (and the book…
Comment linking /stories/emacs/
on “Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?”Submitted A high school teacher's thoughts on diversity in CS education as a story · 28 points
HN discussionThis is what I've done the past couple weeks and it's going pretty well: Start with plain Emacs. Print/write out the popular cheatsheets. Just make sure you know how to exit, access the documentation, and move around the windows/frames/buffers. Get Melpa & install some packages. Play with the config, adding keybindings, figure out hooks and so on. Copy some elisp functions from dotfiles on Github. Spam the documenta…
Comment linking /stories/emacs/
on “Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?”Submitted How to Hack Yourself a Class as a story · 25 points
HN discussionChristina, I still owe you commentary on your site -- as soon as I get a chance. There are a number of interesting things I picked out of your piece. Overall, it was a great read and there's some really good stuff in it. Love the tools and I agree with a number of your key points. Some food for thought though: I think that the 20 hours vs 8 months is not a really good comparison. We do the AP course in less than one…
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on “Learning Online”Submitted Advanced Placement – Because We Don't Trust Teachers as a story · 18 points
HN discussionYou might enjoy Mike Zamansky's blog post and short video about it: http://cestlaz.github.io/posts/using-emacs-25-tramp/#.W2HhPH... Also, the manual is pretty good. It comes with Emacs, of course, or can be read at https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/ My favorite thing about TRAMP is how well integrated it is. It's not just opening remote files, you can also open shells on remote systems, or do file management with d…
Comment linking /posts/using-emacs-25-tramp/
on “Atom 1.29”Submitted What They Don't Teach in College – Other People's Code as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI haven't tried it myself, but I've heard it's really cool, and have read people who've used it praising its virtues and discussing its limitations. It sounds like something I'd like, since it's great for agents and cellular automata. NetLogo – A multi-agent programmable modeling environment (northwestern.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18180542 https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ Seymour Papert has died…
Comment linking /posts/2016-01-15-shift-image.html/
on “Snap! 5 is here”Submitted Teaching CS in K12 – Using easy assignments to introduce deep concepts as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Emacs 63 ClojureScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PDF 2016 – How we lost the open web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching BASH scripting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blogging with Emacs, Jekyll and Nikola as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hate ruby or why I'm switching blogging platforms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CS at Hunter College – one of NY's best kept secrets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging deployment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cellular Automata, NetLogo and real problems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching Coding – getting beyond superficial syntax as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting kids up to fail – CS Education as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CS Certification – I should be exempt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Errors Are Hard to Find as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Emacs 63 with ClojureScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quality Devs and Coding Contests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impostor Syndrome in CS Ed – I'm not good enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Navajo Math Circles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shell short – tagging old posts in Nikola as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should We Teach HTML as a story · 2 points
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