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Henry’s Weblog
Personal blog · henry.precheur.org · on HN as henryprecheurprogramming
Henry’s Weblog is a personal blog at henry.precheur.org about programming. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Validating Emails”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a Vim tip on indenting Python code, using a script the post explains. One commenter says it works better than Vim's default Python autoindent.
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.
Henry’s Weblog index
Most-linked posts?
- Validating Emails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-10
What Hacker News says?
Use the indentation script pointed to and explained by this article: http://henry.precheur.org/2008/4/18/Indenting_Python_with_VI... It is better than the default vim python autoindentation behavior.
Comment linking /2008/4/18/Indenting_Python_with_VIM.html
on “Zed's "One Battery Review" of Django”Submitted Python: copying a list the right way as a story · 150 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python: copying a list the right way as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamically create a type with Python as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 1st experiment with Feedback Army as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gmail just became really good as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weblog 1.0 - Simple blog software as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted International Business Ambush as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted GZIP encoding = happier users? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted MrBeast's Secret Sauce as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The STRINGIFY C preprocessor macro as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will IPv6 ever be a reality? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to serve a WSGI application via CGI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicycle, a Vim plugin for typography junkies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Generics Improvements for Maps and Slices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old mistakes we keep on fixing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validating Emails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python: Double or single quotes? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Einstein’s Intelligence Quiz: Bogus number and Phony statistic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indenting Python with VIM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trick with the "for" statement in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Software, No Cries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validating Emails is hard, very very hard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great documentation, great software as a story · 1 points
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