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Deepak Sarda
Personal blog · antrix.net/posts · on HN as antrixprogramming
Deepak Sarda writes Pinboard (antrix), a personal blog at antrix.net about programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a Python-to-Java guide and a post on using Dropbox in KDE. One commenter found the Java guide good but did not read it in depth.
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.
Deepak Sarda's website and blog
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a short book recently [1] and went through a similar process. Started writing using Markdown & Pandoc but soon realized that Markdown isn't a very good fit for longer technical documents. As an example, support for asides aka admonition blocks is nonexistent. I switched to Asciidoc + Asciidoctor and the process was much more productive. [1] Python for the busy Java Developer. http://antrix.net/py4java
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on “Pro Git, 2nd Edition”Submitted Lazy Initialization in Java - Surprisingly Tricky as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI've written a Python for Java programmers book - http://antrix.net/py4java
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on “C for Python programmers (2011)”Submitted Show HN: Python for the busy Java Developer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhen I refreshed my resume [1] last year, I went with Bootstrap first. But I found it really difficult to modify the defaults that Bootstrap provided. The deal-breaker for me was that the responsive grid worked only when the container width was set to the default value. Changing the default width broke the responsive grid. In the end, I tried out Foundation and it was a breeze to customize it to my needs. My take is…
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on “Zurb Launches Foundation 4”I do something similar for my resume ( http://antrix.net/resume/ ). Started with a template by timbray [1] which I 'imported' into Google Docs by directly editing the document CSS & HTML. Finally, export from Google Docs as doc, pdf, etc. The HTML version on my site has additional print specific CSS to switch fonts, background colour, etc. making the print output more pleasing. [1]: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When…
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on “Why are restaurant web sites so bad? ”No you don't. I've been using Dropbox in KDE for months now. http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/dropbox_kde.html A little searching goes a long way :)
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on “Dropbox: Files Without Borders”https://antrix.net/static/pages/python-for-java/online/ seemed quite good, but I didn't go into it in any depth because I already know Python.
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on “Java for Python programmers”Hi HN Folks. A bit of background on how the site came to be: http://antrix.net/posts/2013/xdd/ I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the site!
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on “Show HN: [x] driven development”