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Chris Granger
Personal blog · chris-granger.com · on HN as ibdknoxprogrammingdesign
Chris Granger's personal blog at chris-granger.com covers programming and design. Since 2011, 102 different Hacker News readers have linked it 138 times, most often “Beyond Light Table”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Granger's blog as the main source on Light Table and Eve, usually as background. Commenters mostly cite posts rather than judge them.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- Useful for understanding why Eve exists; other posts called worth checking out or likely to interest readers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The musings, ramblings, and projects of a man enamored with design, Clojure, and building useful things.
Most-linked posts?
- Beyond Light Table10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2014-10-01
- Light Table - a new IDE concept8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2012-04-13
- The IDE as a value7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-01-25
- Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-04-16
- /lighttable/7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-03-28
- Bret Victor's live editable game in ClojureScript6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2012-02-27
- Coding is not the new literacy6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-01-26
- Two Years of Eve6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-07-21
- Toward a better programming4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-03-28
- Anatomy of a knockout4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-12-12
What Hacker News says?
check out lighttable [ http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/01/07/light-table-is-open-... ]
Comment linking /2014/01/07/light-table-is-open-source/
on “Atom”Submitted Light Table - a new IDE concept as a story · 1592 points
HN discussionLightTable has its own philosophy: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/ Sounds pretty different from Atom's modules... I guess.
Comment linking /2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/
on “Atom”Submitted Light Table is now open source as a story · 1256 points
HN discussionChris mentioned this at the end of a previous post: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/ ClojureScript on node-webkit is looking like a very interesting platform for desktop apps, especially with om/react.
Comment linking /2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/
on “Light Table is now open source”Submitted Eve Version 0 as a story · 590 points
HN discussion... There's lots of stuff about it on the website http://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/
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on “Light Table is now open source”- cf · 2013-04-30
Submitted Light Table 0.4 released as a story · 544 points
HN discussion All 15 of them? The market has spoken, programmers want free stuff, and they’re happy doing it the old fashioned way. Except for those who aren’t content: [Insert videos from Bret Victor here] https://vimeo.com/36579366 Lighttable is another attempt that comes to mind: http://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/
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on “Questions”Submitted Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next as a story · 402 points
HN discussionYeah, Chris wrote up something on this a couple months ago. http://www.chris-granger.com/2016/07/21/two-years-of-eve/
Comment linking /2016/07/21/two-years-of-eve/
on “Eve: Programming designed for humans”Submitted Light Table is in YCS12 as a story · 401 points
HN discussionJust for context: 0.8.0 and 0.7.0 were both release near the end of the year with one year between them[0] (2015 and 2014 respectively). If there is a 0.9.0 coming up I'd expect it in late November or December this year, accordingly. However there has been barely any progress[1] on the GitHub repo since February (compared to the previous years), the last commit was 20 days ago and even before that there were typical…
Comment linking /2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/
on “Eve: Programming designed for humans”Submitted It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released as a story · 384 points
HN discussion@ibdknox 's blog "Two years of Eve" is useful to understand why of Eve: http://www.chris-granger.com/
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on “Eve: Programming designed for humans”Submitted A new Light Table experience as a story · 374 points
HN discussionmaybe shifting the jobs' target.. to higher a level (finally!) ? Reminds me of: https://chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-new-l... modelling has been , is , and will be the needed literacy..
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on “Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code”Submitted Meet the new Light Table as a story · 362 points
HN discussionIt's closer to Light Table than Sublime Text: http://www.chris-granger.com/images/060/full.png
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on “GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter”Submitted The future is specific as a story · 346 points
HN discussionI think it will be browser-based. He mentioned using codemirror in his post here: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers...
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on “Light Table Is On Kickstarter”Submitted Coding is not the new literacy as a story · 323 points
HN discussionI actually have a post about data-centricity in games, though from a very different angle. http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/12/11/anatomy-of-a-knockou...
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on “The Future of Programming”Submitted Toward a better programming as a story · 297 points
HN discussionThe author mentions [1] (at the bottom, under 'key bindings') that light table uses codemirror[2] as the editor. I am really amazed with how well codemirror emulates basic vim key bindings [3], as I prefer to use ctrl-c rather than escape and I often find that vim emulators either do not support ctrl-c or do not support it well. [1] http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers... [2] http://codemirro…
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on “Light Table 0.4 released”Submitted Light Table reaches 0.1.0 as a story · 297 points
HN discussionI look forward to writing (essentially vim-) plugins for light table in javascript. Some day soon? Extensions were mentioned on the blog about a year ago ( http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers... ), but as far as I can tell, they're still not here yet :(
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on “Light Table 0.4 released”Submitted Beyond Light Table as a story · 288 points
HN discussionI also remember a post on HN about Chris Granger's Lightable IDE? http://lighttable.com/ https://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/ Although as ground breaking, it does not seemt to have 'taken off' as much as it should?
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on “Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out”Submitted Is Web3 anything? as a story · 271 points
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