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Gabriel Horner
Personal blog · tagaholic.meprogrammingproductivity
Gabriel Horner writes Tagaholic, a personal blog at tagaholic.me about programming and productivity. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “What are machine tags?”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on tagging, including its history, and on the Ruby command-aliasing project Boson. Commenters also raise Flickr's machine tags as a related idea.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tagaholic - Home - Gabriel Horner's thoughts on tagging, ruby, rails and better knowledge management
Most-linked posts?
- What are machine tags?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-06-04
- Rapid, powerful shell aliasing and completion with Lightning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-09
- Boson - Command the Ruby universe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-16
What Hacker News says?
Why is a home-rolled cd script interesting when there are many more mature, feature-rich cd-tools out there? * http://www.skamphausen.de/cgi-bin/ska/CDargs * http://micans.org/apparix/ * http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump * http://github.com/rupa/z * http://github.com/flavio/jump Also, the title is misleading. I thought it was actually a commandline tool that removed the need to cd most of the time, like lightni…
Comment linking /2010/04/08/lightning-speed-for-your-shell.html
on “Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal”Submitted Tux - A Shell for Sinatra Apps as a story · 34 points
HN discussionFor sometime there were also "machine tags", basically a triple tag invented (I think) at Flickr[0]. It was an interesting concept, you could automate relationships between different contexts, for example between Flickr and Last.fm[1]. I used it for a while, then I always wondered why nothing similar has ever emerged, maybe because after the first wave of "social sharing" excitement of web 2.0, every walled garden h…
Comment linking /2009/03/26/what-are-machine-tags.html
on “What Happened to Tagging? (2019)”Submitted Lightning - A new and faster way to use your shell as a story · 33 points
HN discussionIn a similar vein, here's my executable cover letter in ruby, http://tagaholic.me/resume.html . Running it opens my resume in your browser (on a Mac). Got the idea from http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/02/23/how-to-apply-to-a-job...
Comment linking /resume.html
on “True hacker resume: CV as Python unit test”Submitted Autocompleting a Ruby method's arguments based on its documentation as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIf your changes were method changes, one9 should catch them. As explained in the Rails section of this post, http://tagaholic.me/2011/03/05/one9-upgrade-to-ruby-19-now.h... , you can always jump into a troublesome gem's source, install its dependencies and run one9 on its tests.
Comment linking /2011/03/05/one9-upgrade-to-ruby-19-now.html
on “Convert Ruby 1.8 to 1.9.2”Submitted Boson - Command the Ruby universe as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor a more thorough explanation of functionality, motivation and how it works: http://tagaholic.me/2011/03/05/one9-upgrade-to-ruby-19-now.h...
Comment linking /2011/03/05/one9-upgrade-to-ruby-19-now.html
on “Convert Ruby 1.8 to 1.9.2”Submitted Rapid, powerful shell aliasing and completion with Lightning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I wrote lightning For >90% of what I do on the commandline as a programmer, lightning allows me to never have to type a full path to a file or directory for any command. If I do find myself using a new set of tedious paths, I make appropriate shell glob(s) for them and let lightning do the rest. I'm currently at 71 functions made from 16 different bolts(groups of shell globs). Also, you may find this wal…
Comment linking /2010/04/09/lightning-speed-for-the-user.html
on “Lightning - A new and faster way to use your shell”Submitted What are machine tags? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDid you come across a project named Boson (I think), it allows aliasing of commands, and various other options. Check this: http://tagaholic.me/2009/10/14/boson-command-your-ruby-unive...
Comment linking /2009/10/14/boson-command-your-ruby-universe.html
on “Ruby Ncurses Forms and Widgets Library”Submitted Tagaholic – What Are Machine Tags? (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screencast: Custom Autocompletion of Any Method's Arguments in the Ruby Shell as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Dimensional Console Menus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I am machine tag and so can You as a story · 1 points
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