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Charlie's Blog
Personal blog · chiply.devprogrammingproductivity
Charlie's Blog is a personal blog at chiply.dev about programming and productivity. Since 2026, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Charlie Holland's blog for Emacs and Lisp-style writing, such as the VOMPECCC fruit picker article on using the stack and the propertized-string idea, and a post on Hyperbole's HyWiki package.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-04
- HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-08
- GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build Your Hyperverse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-29
- Completion is a Substrate, not a UI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-14
- Vompeccc: A Modular Completion Framework for Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-16
- Vompeccc from Scratch: Picking Produce with ICR in Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-28
What Hacker News says?
I'm a big fan of his work. The VOMPECCC fruit picker[0] article, was what finally got me to understand (and start using) the power of the stack in my own programs. The whole "propertized string" as "unit of currency" concept I found extremely useful, and now I use a custom consult document picker (with rich annotations) to perform actions on different kinds of XML documents that live in my BaseX database, it's super…
Comment linking /post-vompeccc-fruits
on “SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog”Submitted SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThis post is about Hyperbole's HyWiki package for knowledge management. I've been doing a deep dive into knowledge management and PKMSs, and in my research I've found that HyWiki offers the best of all words. It has a truly unique behavior compared to other PKMSs that allows it to obviate the bookkeeping involved with linking your notes together, and allows your curated knowledge to propagate into the rest of your E…
Comment linking /post-hyperbole-hywiki
on “HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext”Submitted Live Life on the Edge: A Layered Strategy for Testing Data Models as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build Your Hyperverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SVG-Margin: Better Gutters for Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Space-Tree: Workspace Management Trees in Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Vompeccc Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blogging with Emacs org-mode and SvelteKit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vompeccc: A Modular Completion Framework for Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build Your Hyperverse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs: A Tree and a Server Walk into a Core as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Completion is a Substrate, not a UI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted May I recommend understanding Emacs's patterns as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CN Diagrams: Architecture Diagrams That Scale with Your System as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs Completion Showcase with Vompeccc as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vompeccc from Scratch: Picking Produce with ICR in Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: The "O's, D's and P's" in Infinite Jest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vompeccc: A Modular Completion Framework for Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Completion is a Substrate, not a UI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Schema Diagrams: Bi-Di Visualization for the Schema Languages That Need It Most as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Schema Language Question: The Quest for a Single Source of Truth as a story · 1 points
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