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Evan Travers
Personal blog · evantravers.com/articles · on HN as evantraversprogrammingproductivity
Evan Travers's personal blog at evantravers.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Dating Other Task Managers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his posts on MagSafe keyboard tenting, Hammerspoon productivity tweaks, and programming on the subway. One commenter says he always puts a lot of thought into things.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Another fine page at evantravers.com
Most-linked posts?
- Dating Other Task Managers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
- /articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-and-wearable-keyboards/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-21
What Hacker News says?
I have also contemplated wearing a keyboard on my pants and using a pair of “XR glasses” (like those by X-Real or Viture) as a display. I would absolutely never do this in a public place, much less a crowded one. This guy’s figured it out though. https://evantravers.com/articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-...
Comment linking /articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-and-wearable-keyboards/
on “I program on the subway”Submitted Dating Other Task Managers as a story · 100 points
HN discussionI love reading Evan Travers' blog. He always puts a lot of thought into things that I also want to improve at. I know that a lot of people on Hacker News are very much against productivity hacking, but I none the less want to find ones that work and help making navigating life a little easier for me. I especially like the stuff he's done with Hammerspoon [1] and always look out for the things that can make using a M…
Comment linking /articles/tags/hammerspoon/
on “Dating Other Task Managers”Submitted Take Screenshots of Your Work as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI put together a list of odd keyboard layouts if you want to ask any of the folks who volunteered for my post: http://evantravers.com/articles/2019/04/20/community-post-40...
Comment linking /articles/2019/04/20/community-post-40-keyboard-layouts/
on “A review of the Planck keyboard – 48 keys are plenty”Submitted Portable Standing Desk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHello, fellow ZSA Voyager plus dual-weild aficionado! It’s great, isn’t it? I saw [this]( https://evantravers.com/articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-... ) here recently and promptly bought some mini-tripods and MagSafe adapters. Access to arbitrary tenting angles has been a big plus. I also have a 3D printed deck for it that sits over my MacBook keyboard and is quite nice. Don’t want to lose access to my Miryoku la…
Comment linking /articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-and-wearable-keyboards/
on “Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig”Submitted Making My Nvim Feel More Like Helix with Mini.nvim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://evantravers.com Front-end, automation, creativity, UX, faith.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Positions on Generative AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Perfecting Your Config as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hammerspoon: A Better, Better Hyper Key as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Helix as a Vim User as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagining AccessibilityGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Keyboard Setup and config as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of the Corneish Zen 2: A Low Profile Ergonomic BLE Split Keyboard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dating Other Task Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Jump to Vim Quickfix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Middleman Helper for Responsive YouTube Videos as a story · 1 points
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