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Danny Guo
Personal blog · dannyguo.com/blog · on HN as dguoprogrammingwebproductivity
Danny Guo's personal blog at dannyguo.com covers programming, web and productivity. Since 2018, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “Remap Caps Lock to Escape and Control”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for practical posts, especially on remapping Caps Lock to Escape and Control for Vim users, and a post on a 'seatbelt rule' for judging things. Also cited: a credit card post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Remap Caps Lock to Escape and Control3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-07-17
- My seatbelt rule for judgment3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-02-06
- What I learned by re-learning HTML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-07
- How I Do Code Review2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-20
- Start with a Minimum Viable System (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-09
What Hacker News says?
https://www.dannyguo.com/blog I'm still working on developing a habit of writing regularly. I love it when I find a personal blog post that perfectly solves a problem that I have (especially when that blog post is essentially the only resource for a very specific problem) or explains a concept better than anything else. So I'm trying to do the same for others for things that I know about. More people should share wh…
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted My seatbelt rule for judgment as a story · 487 points
HN discussionSeconded, though I also make my caps lock function as control when held down: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
Comment linking /blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-control/
on “Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro”Submitted My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack as a story · 278 points
HN discussionhttps://dannyguo.com
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Serve Videos Instead of GIFs as a story · 273 points
HN discussionShape ! = center of gravity. All the power and movement stuff is likely very close to the ground, and thus the robot very difficult to tip over. https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/
Comment linking /blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/
on “Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots”Submitted Google banned me from Google Voice as a story · 248 points
HN discussionYou can do both! I always remap my caps lock to act as escape when tapped and control when held. I wrote a blog post on how to do it: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
Comment linking /blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-control/
on “Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?”Submitted The Decline of the MacBook Pro as a story · 211 points
HN discussionI do this on every machine I use. I wrote a blog post with detailed instructions: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
Comment linking /blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-control/
on “The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks”Submitted Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo as a story · 134 points
HN discussionMapping Capslock simultaneously to both ESC and Control solved this problem for me. It might not be your piece of cake but it definitely improved my vim experience greatly. See for example (I'm not the author) https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
Comment linking /blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-control/
on “Intermediate Vim”Submitted What I learned by re-learning HTML as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSome of us even prefer mapping Capslock to both ESC and Control, as explained for example here (I'm not the author): https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
Comment linking /blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-control/
on “Intermediate Vim”Submitted Automating My Air Conditioner as a story · 38 points
HN discussionWas the number used to sign up for, and receive communications from credit card companies? Is the ban related to signing up for +100 cards? https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-credit-and-debit-card-colle...
Comment linking /blog/my-credit-and-debit-card-collection
on “Google banned me from Google Voice”Submitted Beat the Drum as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThere was a post on HN once for a hack to do the same on Linux Found that : https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
Comment linking /blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-control/
on “Vim Reference Guide”Submitted Start with a Minimum Viable System (2023) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionhttps://www.dannyguo.com/ Built with Hugo: https://gohugo.io/
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted Migrating from Authy to Bitwarden for 2FA Codes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJust happen to read another thread "my seatbelt rule for judgement" https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/ ,I can't agree more. Before you make any judgement about anything, you need to learn about it. In this case, go visit Xinjiang, talk with natives, see with your own eyes, and then you know who's telling lies.
Comment linking /blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/
on ““How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” by Gulbahar Haitiwaji”Submitted Using Mailgun for a Free Custom Domain Email Address as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJust read another thread "my seatbelt rule for judgement" https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/ ,I can't agree more. Before you make any judgement about anything, you need to learn about it. In this case, go visit Xinjiang, talk with natives, see with your own eyes, and then you know who's telling lies.
Comment linking /blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/
on ““How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp” by Gulbahar Haitiwaji”Submitted A Code Review of My Earliest Projects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI could have used this advice a long time ago. For a while, I wanted to blog about the random programming issues that I run into, but it always seemed like writing quality blog posts would take too much effort. I eventually created a dedicated page on my personal website. It's technically public, but I don't link to it from anywhere else on the website. It's just a way for me to practice writing and reflection witho…
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on “Just start writing and the rest will follow”Submitted Fixing MacBook Pro Thermal Performance Issues as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI accidentally published[1] my AWS secret key last year because I pushed an old project from college. At the time, I was very new to using source control and had little idea how to distinguish between what should and shouldn't be committed. I hope colleges and code boot camps go over that sort of info nowadays. The usefulness to effort to learn ratio seems exceptionally high. [1]: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/i-pub…
Comment linking /blog/i-published-my-aws-secret-key-to-github/
on “Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories”Submitted Automating TurboTax Data Entry with Puppeteer as a story · 3 points
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