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Codemancers is the company blog at crypt.codemancers.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Setting up Emacs as a Ruby development environment on OS X”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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27mentions?
10HN people?
2013–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's Emacs setup guides as starting points for configuring Emacs for development, including a Rails setup guide. The linked posts cover Emacs configuration.

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.

Codemancers is an AI-first engineering and product studio. We design, build, and ship intelligent products — combining deep software craftsmanship with modern AI to solve real-world problems at scale.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Setting up Emacs as a Ruby development environment on OS X
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-10-28
  2. Show HN: Interceptor – mock AJAX requests at the browser level
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. hvis · 2014-08-30Recommends
    Here's a different couple of guides to get you started: http://lorefnon.me/2014/02/02/configuring-emacs-for-rails.ht... http://crypt.codemancers.com/posts/2013-09-26-setting-up-ema...

    Comment linking /posts/2013-09-26-setting-up-emacs-as-development-environment-on-osx/

    on “Show HN: C/C++ Development Environment for Emacs”
  2. Submitted Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir as a story · 133 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Setting up Emacs as a Ruby development environment on OS X as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Show HN: Interceptor – mock AJAX requests at the browser level as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace – Part 1 as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted CSS3 Box Model behaviour as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace - part 2 as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted DIY Ruby CPU Profiling – Part III as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Autodeploy from GitHub Using AWS CodeDeploy as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Show HN: Invoker, a utility for managing processes in development envionment as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Elixir Remote Debugging as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted React.js: Server side rendering as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted An Introduction to JSON Schema as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted React server side rendering with v4 Router as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted DIY CPU Profiling in Ruby – Part 4 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted DIY Ruby CPU Profiling – Part I as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Understanding exit signals in Erlang/Elixir as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted DIY Ruby CPU Profiling – Part II as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted How Rails reloads your code in development environment? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Elixir/Phoenix deployments using Distillery as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Using backbone.js in multiple page web application as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Interceptor: Your Own Mock Server Inside the Browser as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Say goodbye to vendor prefixes with Autoprefixer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Vim tab completion for RubyMotion as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Setting up Emacs as Ruby development environment on OS X as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Form Object validations in Rails 4 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted All you need to know about writing a mountable Rails Gem with rspec as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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