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Ham Vocke

Personal blog · hamvocke.com/blog · on HN as hamvockeprogrammingproductivity

Ham Vocke's personal blog at hamvocke.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2015, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
21HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ham Vocke's posts on tmux remote pair programming and building terminal color schemes, citing them as references for terminal setup. One commenter called the color scheme post neat.

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.

Ham Vocke's personal website

The author on HN?

hamvocke · 28 karma · member since 2011

hamvocke.com Say hi via ham@hamvocke.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-17
  2. You Might Be Better Off Without Pull Requests
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-28
  3. Let's Create a Terminal Color Scheme
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-17
  4. A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-16
  5. Remote Pair Programming Made Easy with SSH and Tmux
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://hamvocke.com/blog/remote-pair-programming-with-tmux/ it describes tmux setup, but screen can do it as well - there are guides online.

    Comment linking /blog/remote-pair-programming-with-tmux/

    on “Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?”
  2. Submitted A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux (2015) as a story · 176 points

    HN discussion
  3. If you're working on the same machine (say via SSH) you can also share a session with tmux. https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/remote-pair-programming-with-t...

    Comment linking /blog/remote-pair-programming-with-tmux/

    on “Show HN: Assist – Instant terminal sharing from anywhere”
  4. Submitted A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  5. Some personal stuff, some tech stuff: https://hamvocke.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  6. Submitted The Joy of Under-Engineering as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  7. johng · 2024-06-17Recommends
    Not my site, but I stumbled onto it from another submission earlier and thought it was neat and deserved some attention. Noticed it from this submission: https://hamvocke.com/blog/lets-create-a-terminal-color-schem...

    Comment linking /blog/lets-create-a-terminal-color-scheme/

    on “Terminal color schemes for cereal lovers”
  8. Submitted You Might Be Better Off Without Pull Requests as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Make Tmux Pretty and Usable as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Find Git Commits by Commit Message Text as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Let's Create a Terminal Color Scheme as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted A 16-Color Vim Color Scheme as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted You might be better off without pull requests as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Book Review: "Tidy First?" as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Remote pair programming with SSH and tmux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Remote Pair Programming Made Easy with SSH and Tmux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted A Quick and Easy Guide to Tmux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted You Might Be Better Off Without Pull Requests(2024) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Home-Cooked Software as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Testing Microservices as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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