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Dan Cross
Personal blog · pub.gajendra.netsystemsprogramming
Dan Cross writes Minimalism exposed, a personal blog at pub.gajendra.net about systems and programming. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Whither Plan 9? History and motivation”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this site for a Paredit reference card PDF and a 2016 essay on Plan 9's graphical interface. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dan Cross's Web Log
Most-linked posts?
- Whither Plan 9? History and motivation4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-05-25
- /src/paredit-refcard.pdf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-07
- The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-06-06
- Dotfiles: Stop the Madness (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-14
- Mathematics I Use (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-29
What Hacker News says?
> I gave an example of opening an existing structure and modifying it in the comment you're replying to. Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "subtle gesture" there. Anyway, in the original comment you said: > Data structures are shapes. A shape is better drawn than described in text. I'll grant you that speaking + gestures may not be a bad way of entering and manipulating small data structures and preforming si…
Comment linking /src/paredit-refcard.pdf
on “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows”Submitted Mathematics I Use (2012) as a story · 248 points
HN discussionThis! A printout of the Paredit reference card [1] taped near my monitor is the only way I was able to learn it. [1] http://pub.gajendra.net/src/paredit-refcard.pdf
Comment linking /src/paredit-refcard.pdf
on “Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?”Submitted The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card as a story · 123 points
HN discussionIn a sense yes, but also no. Plan 9 was built with the observation that high-resolution, bitmapped graphics displays were ubiquitous, and there was little motivation to keep the dated "tty" model as a basis for interaction. So you're expected to a graphical interface for working with the system, but it doesn't _need_ to be `rio`. I wrote a bit about this a few years ago: http://pub.gajendra.net/2016/05/plan9part1 (I…
Comment linking /2016/05/plan9part1
on “r9: Plan 9 in Rust”Submitted Whither Plan 9? History and motivation as a story · 109 points
HN discussionback in the days, all there was was http://pub.gajendra.net/src/paredit-refcard.pdf
Comment linking /src/paredit-refcard.pdf
on “Paredit 25 released (after 8 years)”Submitted The Tyranny of the Hollerith Punched Card (2012) as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plan 9: Part 1: Whither Plan 9? History and Motivation as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stone Age as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plan 9: Part 1 (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dotfiles: Stop the Madness (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dotfiles: Stop the Madness (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mathematics I Use as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tyranny of the Hollerith Punched Card as a story · 1 points
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