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Eric Scrivner
Personal blog · ericscrivner.meprogrammingwriting
Eric Scrivner's personal blog at ericscrivner.me covers programming and writing. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Forensic Analysis of “No Silver Bullet””. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment links this blog, using an image hosted on the site as an example of Emacs paredit and rainbow-parens coloured parentheses in Common Lisp editing. The comment does not judge the writing.
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?
- Forensic Analysis of “No Silver Bullet”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-23
What Hacker News says?
Most use an IDE such as Emacs (paredit-mode and rainbow-parens) that handles automatic paren matching for you, so it's really a non-issue after the first week. The editor takes care of indentation, matching (so you don't have any dangling parens ever), and optionally colors matching pairs in the same color so you can easily tell what level they're at. This is a fairly typical look: https://ericscrivner.me/wp-content…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/rainbow-delimiters.png
on “A Road to Common Lisp (2018)”Submitted Forensic Analysis of “No Silver Bullet” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forensic Analysis of “No Silver Bullet” as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
