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Chris Kipp
Personal blog · chris-kipp.io/blogprogrammingproductivity
Chris Kipp's personal blog at chris-kipp.io covers programming and productivity. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in the Programming in Unison thread. The one comment discusses code living outside plain text files and the speed of Unison, not the post's 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.
A collection of blogs posts by Chris Kipp over the years.
What Hacker News says?
This is a good point, and deserves a lot more discussion about it. I personally don't mind that my code is somewhere else than in a text file, because as it now I have to ductape a huge array of tools to make it to production in languages like TypeScript and Elixir(languages we use at $WORK). I don't want to deal with that anymore than I need to. I hope modern languages get to the level of swiftness like Unison, but…
Comment linking /blog/an-intro-to-the-scala-presentation-compiler
on “Programming in Unison”Submitted The Debug Adapter Protocol and Scala – how it all works together as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned in the first year of starting a podcast as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Intro to the Scala Presentation Compiler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bloop Tour for Metals Users (Scala) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A look at the state of Scala development in Vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussion