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Chris Toomey

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Chris Toomey's personal blog at ctoomey.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post on learning Vim incrementally. One commenter lists it among recommended Vim resources, alongside a Vim tutorial and a video on the Vim language.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. dredmorbius · 2019-05-01Recommends
    Recommended: Learn vim For the Last Time: A Tutorial and Primer https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/ Mastering the Vim Language https://youtube.com/watch?v=wlR5gYd6um0 An Incremental Approach to Vim https://ctoomey.com/writing/an-incremental-approach-to-vim/

    Comment linking /writing/an-incremental-approach-to-vim/

    on “Intermediate Vim”
  2. Submitted Read-Only Mode for Better Rails Downtime as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Downsampling Data with Postgres Window Functions as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Wvim: Quickly edit shell scripts, aliases, and functions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Vim's Arglist as a File-Centric Todo List as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted An Incremental Approach to Vim as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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