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Dave Yarwood
Personal blog · blog.djy.ioprogramming
Dave Yarwood writes dave yarwood, a personal blog at blog.djy.io about programming. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Alda, a text-based music composition language, and Taskwarrior, a task tracker. Commenters link them as references, and no comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A programming-related blog by Dave Yarwood
Most-linked posts?
- Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-09
- Dave yarwood · Why I'm rewriting Alda in Go and Kotlin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-29
- Working with OSC: UDP vs. TCP (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-13
What Hacker News says?
Indeed, MML is mentioned here: https://blog.djy.io/alda-a-manifesto-and-gentle-introduction... This is another interactive MML project worth checking out: https://github.com/superctr/mmlgui edit: unfortunately, we need to clarify...we're talking about Music Macro Language
Comment linking /alda-a-manifesto-and-gentle-introduction/
on “Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition”Submitted Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life? as a story · 424 points
HN discussionTaskwarrior, where have you been all my life? https://blog.djy.io/taskwarrior-where-have-you-been-all-my-l... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17029560
Comment linking /taskwarrior-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/
on “Ask HN: What tools do you use for note-taking, progress tracking and TODO lists?”Submitted Programming music for a modern dance piece as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conjuring Clojure in Vim as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with OSC: UDP vs. TCP (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alda 2 released, rewritten in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dave yarwood · Why I'm rewriting Alda in Go and Kotlin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I deploy my personal projects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PlantUML Turns Text into Diagrams as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A History of the Architecture of Alda as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alda and the NREPL Protocol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using lots of instruments in an Alda score as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MusicXML import and other new Alda features as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm rewriting Alda in Go and Kotlin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using git write-tree to cache builds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to implement an Alda library for your favorite language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Timing Issues in Tests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The FIFO controlled, text-to-speech narrator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with OSC: UDP vs. TCP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alda for Clojurists as a story · 1 points
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