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Felix Crux
Personal blog · felixcrux.com/blog · on HN as felixcprogrammingproductivity
Felix Crux's personal blog at felixcrux.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Doug Crockford Talk on JavaScript”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Felix Crux's blog and reference library, covering programming, technology, engineering, and various other topics.
Most-linked posts?
- Doug Crockford Talk on JavaScript2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-17
- Feeds: The Only Civilised Way to Read Online2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09
- It’s worth putting in the effort to regularly update dependencies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-21
- Favourite Firefox Feature: Keyword Search Bookmarks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-29
- I organize my digital music collection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-20
What Hacker News says?
https://felixcrux.com/library/what-you-need-to-know-about-op...
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on “60x speed-up of Linux “perf””Submitted PDFMunge: Improve the display of technical PDFs on eBook readers as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI've written a series of posts on practical "recipes" for how to use Ledger (one of the leading plain text accounting systems) effectively in more complex situations beyond the basic tutorials: https://felixcrux.com/blog/ledger-practices
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on “Plain Text Accounting (PTA)”Submitted Doug Crockford Talk on JavaScript as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI've written a series of guides on how to use these tools in practice, here: https://felixcrux.com/blog/ledger-practices
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on “Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends”Submitted Favourite Firefox Feature: Keyword Search Bookmarks as a story · 8 points
HN discussionA similar tool is my own PDFMunge, previously discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089068 and in more depth on my site here: http://www.felixcrux.com/posts/pdfmunge-improve-pdfs-ebook-r... But this looks quite a bit more polished and user-friendly.
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on “Briss Trims PDFs so They Fit Better, Are Easier to Read on Your Ereader”Submitted Douglas Crockford Talk on "JavaScript: The Good Parts" as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm going to recommend Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts". It will really show you how to get the most out of the language and avoid the nasty pitfalls. As a side note, I attended a talk by him last night on this topic, and wrote up a summary. For a preview of the book, you may be interested in checking out http://www.felixcrux.com/posts/douglas-crockford-talk-waterl...
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on “Ask HN: Learning Javascript & AJAX”Submitted Favourite Firefox Feature: Keyword Search Bookmarks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI actually blogged about that specific argument a little while ago here: http://felixcrux.com/posts/mind-gap/ I am curious about some of the statements you made, because I am not aware of the data supporting them, and yet they could change my analysis completely. Specifically, why do you say that "the cost to lay cable in the US is higher by several orders of magnitude?" Is there a valid reason for why US prices are…
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on “The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Cheaper?”Submitted Transcribe: Static Sites with Django and YAML as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I organize my digital music collection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feeds: The Only Civilised Way to Read Online as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to interpret, understand, and act on feedback as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s worth putting in the effort to regularly update dependencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s worth putting in the effort to regularly update dependencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I organize my digital music collection as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feeds: The Only Civilised Way to Read Online as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What You Need to Know About Free and Open Source Software Licensing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hector: A Literate Haskell Implementation of ELIZA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a (not so) Basic Makefile as a story · 1 points
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