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Fn/Log

Personal blog · francismurillo.github.ioprogramming

Fn/Log is a personal blog at francismurillo.github.io about programming. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Exploring Emacs rx Macro”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
8HN people?
2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Fn/Log posts cover Emacs and terminal workflows, including the Emacs Lisp rx macro for writing regexes and using w3m with VLC to watch YouTube. Commenters cite them as examples of rx.

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.

* The diary of a mediocre developer *

Most-linked posts?

  1. Exploring Emacs rx Macro
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-23
  2. Exploring Emacs RX Macro
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-01
  3. Understanding Rust Through AVL Trees
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. sedachv · 2017-06-07
    Why? You can use Youtube just fine with w3m and an external media player: http://francismurillo.github.io/2017-01-11-Using-vlc-With-w3...

    Comment linking /2017-01-11-Using-vlc-With-w3m/

    on “A day without JavaScript”
  2. 0xedb · 2022-04-21

    Submitted Understanding Rust Through AVL Trees as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. natrys · 2022-06-10Recommends
    Not OP but I have switched to using rx macro for everything and I never miss regex. I miss rx instead everywhere else. Here are couple of blog posts someone might find useful: https://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-... https://karthinks.com/software/bridging-islands-in-emacs-1/

    Comment linking /2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-rx-Macro/

    on “Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language”
  4. fanf2 · 2019-08-07

    Submitted Understanding Rust Through AVL Trees as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. rogual · 2018-11-28
    Emacs Lisp has rx: http://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-r...

    Comment linking /2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-rx-Macro/

    on “ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better (2017)”
  6. pmoriarty · 2017-09-23

    Submitted Exploring Emacs rx Macro as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. auganov · 2020-07-20
    The rx macro in emacs is similar: https://francismurillo.github.io/2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-...

    Comment linking /2017-03-30-Exploring-Emacs-rx-Macro/

    on “Super-expressive: library for building regexes in (almost) natural language”
  8. tangue · 2017-04-01

    Submitted Exploring Emacs RX Macro as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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