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Diego Zamboni
Personal blog · zzamboni.org/postprogrammingproductivity
Diego Zamboni's personal blog at zzamboni.org covers programming and productivity. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on customizing the elvish shell and on beautifying Org mode in Emacs. Commenters cite them as tips and as sources of inspiration.
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.
Diego Zamboni's personal website and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-07
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug: Elvish is another non-POSIX shell aiming at interactive friendliness and saner scripting: https://elvish.io/ Some highlights: * It comes with helpful interactive features, like syntax highlighting and on-the-fly error checking; enhanced history searching with ^R; directory history and a Ranger-inspired "navigation mode" (see homepage for demos). * It supports some advanced (in shell standards) progra…
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on “Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etc”Submitted Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018) as a story · 227 points
HN discussionI've also recently started using elvish as my default shell full time and I really love it! Still needs some kinks worked out, but it's a very powerful shell. And pretty easy to pick up! For anyone interested, here's a good article with some tips about working with/customizing elvish: https://zzamboni.org/post/my-elvish-configuration-with-comme...
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on “Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust”Submitted Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI wrote my master's dissertation in Emacs with proportional fonts and many other nice affordances. Here's one of the blog posts I used for inspiration: https://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/
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on “RMS – EmacsConf Talk”Submitted My Doom Emacs configuration, with commentary as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Perhaps Org Mode reskinned to look more like Markdown. or , reskinned to look visually whatever one wants... https://sophiebos.io/posts/beautifying-emacs-org-mode/ https://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/ I mention this, because I am not particular about which character symbolises what as long as it is consistent and documented . However, some people do want things to look just so , and for them, f…
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on “Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text”Submitted My Hammerspoon Configuration, with Commentary as a story · 1 points
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