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Frederick Giasson

Personal blog · fgiasson.com/blogprogrammingdataai

Frederick Giasson's personal blog at fgiasson.com covers programming, data and ai. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Optimal Emacs Settings for Org-Mode for Literate Programming in Clojure”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its Emacs and Org-mode content, specifically its guide to literate programming with Org babel. One commenter says they used it as a guide.

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.

I am a machine learning engineer, a manager and an entrepreneur living in Québec City, QC, Canada.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Optimal Emacs Settings for Org-Mode for Literate Programming in Clojure
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. aesyondu · 2022-09-26
    Org+babel is probably my favorite thing about emacs, magit being a close second. I tried doing Literate Programming using this blog as my guide http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2016/06/21/optimal-emacs-... , but I got burned out pretty quickly. I think my problem was I put literally everything in a single README.org file, and it was so taxing scrolling up and down. I might try again but with multiple org files.

    Comment linking /blog/index.php/2016/06/21/optimal-emacs-settings-for-org-mode-for-literate-programming/

    on “Run programs in Emacs buffer, seeing their output inline, interactively”
  2. type0 · 2016-09-05

    Submitted Literate Clojure Programming: Anatomy of a Org-Mode File as a story · 105 points

    HN discussion
  3. Terretta · 2017-02-18

    Submitted Optimal Emacs Settings for Org-Mode for Literate Programming in Clojure as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  4. mayava · 2017-04-19

    Submitted A Machine Learning Workflow as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. pmoriarty · 2017-10-21

    Submitted Creating and Running Unit Tests Directly in Source Files with Org-Mode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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