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diurnal.st is a personal blog at diurnal.st about programming and productivity. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Training Your Brain to Be (and Stay) Happy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked post on keeping a software engineering notebook as plain-text files in directories. One commenter describes organising their own notes the same way as code, using multi-file search.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Training Your Brain to Be (and Stay) Happy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-28
What Hacker News says?
Many notes are easily organized -- when I take notes on books I am reading, for example, there is pretty natural connection to where the not should live (e.g. /education/books/design_of_everyday_things.txt) Otherwise, since these notes in the context of a project, I can treat it the same way I treat code. So a mix of multi-file search, and directories that correspond to the knowledge in them (e.g. "finances/investin…
Comment linking /2013/05/27/training-your-brain-to-be-and-stay-happy.html
on “The software engineering notebook”Submitted Training Your Brain to Be (and Stay) Happy as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted K3S on Balena as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compressing PDFs on Mac OS X with custom filters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Training Your Brain to Be (and Stay) Happy as a story · 1 points
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