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Personal blog · hiltmon.com/blogprogrammingproductivity

Hiltmon is a personal blog at hiltmon.com about programming and productivity. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Minimal Project Management”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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26mentions?
13HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Linked in one comment alongside a Python 3 support checker, as a companion to the point that Python 2 persists in legacy dependencies. The comments say nothing about the writing itself.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Minimal Project Management
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-15
  2. Brown M&Ms: A Quick Way to Determine Code Quality
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. bootload · 2016-02-12
    "If wanting to know up front if this is designed for the future or the past is an edge case, it's a pretty crowded edge. Python 3 was released eight years ago" good point: a quick search reveals that Py2.x is still in a lot of legacy code (dependencies -- the big one), so I always check first: - https://python3wos.appspot.com/ - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30751668/python-2-vs-pyth... - http://hiltmon.com/blo…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/01/04/python-its-a-trap/

    on “Bokeh – a Python interactive visualization library”
  2. hiltmon · 2012-02-25

    Submitted The Markdown Mindset as a story · 111 points

    HN discussion
  3. WA9ACE · 2019-06-15

    Submitted Minimal Project Management as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  4. hiltmon · 2012-01-12

    Submitted It should only take you a few hours... - The Hiltmon as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. hamid914 · 2016-10-12

    Submitted The Simple C++ Makefile – Executable Edition – Hiltmon as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. quanganhdo · 2013-04-10

    Submitted Google Already Is Big Brother as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. patchfx · 2014-11-03

    Submitted They Will Not Come – Taking Kifu Offline as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. chmars · 2013-03-12

    Submitted Guessing the Wall Street Journal Agenda for Apple as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. hiltmon · 2012-10-24

    Submitted Email Etiquette as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. hiltmon · 2012-01-23

    Submitted Understanding ACTA - The Hiltmon as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. hiltmon · 2012-06-30

    Submitted New Project Folder Layout - bringing code and documents together as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. hiltmon · 2012-05-22

    Submitted Distributed Note Taking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Urgo · 2012-03-13

    Submitted We are developers. Not free tech support. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. hiltmon · 2012-02-01

    Submitted The paradox of choice - The Hiltmon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. hiltmon · 2012-01-18

    Submitted Hollywood Accounting and SOPA - The Hiltmon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. hiltmon · 2012-01-12

    Submitted My Favorite Mac Apps of 2011 - The Hiltmon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. excsn · 2023-01-18

    Submitted Minimal Project Management as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. caminocorner · 2021-03-23

    Submitted Brown M&Ms: A Quick Way to Determine Code Quality as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. mttjj · 2019-05-16

    Submitted Brown M&Ms: A Quick Way to Determine Code Quality (2015) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. wellpast · 2018-08-21

    Submitted Programming Polytheism (2011) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. tortilla · 2013-11-12

    Submitted TextMate 2 Basics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. hiltmon · 2012-08-25

    Submitted Thwarted by Patents as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. hiltmon · 2012-01-26

    Submitted Test Driven Development Really Works - The Hiltmon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. hiltmon · 2012-01-23

    Submitted Bread crumbs in Day One - The Hiltmon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. hiltmon · 2012-01-18

    Submitted Stop SOPA and PIPA, a personal request - The Hiltmon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. hiltmon · 2012-01-16

    Submitted Products define you - The Hiltmon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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