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cmdln.org is a personal blog at cmdln.org about programming and productivity. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Using Org in 2023”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts for an Org-mode note workflow using hyperlinking, backlinking and org-transclusion to reuse text, and for an SSH guide covering port forwarding.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Org in 20233 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-05
What Hacker News says?
This talks about port forwarding but does not mention using ssh as a socks proxy, with is extremely convenient. Also, although tricky to configure ssh can also be used as a VPN with tun/tap support (although a good /etc/network/interfaces on Debian can make it as easy as ifup/ifdown tunX) Unfortunately this guide does not mention ssh-agent to have usable passphrased keys. Tip: Mac OS X Keychain integrates fantastica…
Comment linking /2008/02/11/restricting-ssh-commands/
on “SSH tricks”Submitted I Org in 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Because at work I’m typing the same bland things all the time in documents and communications. This problem can be solved without text prediction by building a personal knowledge base with hyperlinking[0] and backlinking[1] for discovery, and transclusion[2] for automating writing the same bland things. How I org in 2023 by Nick Anderson[3] goes over a great workflow for this. The advantage of this is that all of…
Comment linking /2023/03/25/how-i-org-in-2023/
on “A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model”Submitted Using Org in 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think the biggest thing I have gotten from reading this so far is org-transclusion[0]. Being able to write the way that org-roam encourages, and assembling it using links for exporting sounds awesome! [0] https://cmdln.org/2023/03/25/how-i-org-in-2023/#output
Comment linking /2023/03/25/how-i-org-in-2023/
on “Using Org in 2023”
