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Personal blog · cloudhead.io · on HN as cloudheadprogrammingdesign
Home ~ cloudhead.io is a personal blog at cloudhead.io about programming and design. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Toto - Heroku blogging in 10 seconds & 230 LOC”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link cloudhead.io for its Vim advice (notably the 'staying out of insert mode' post), the popol polling library, and the Toto blogging tool, plus posts on Rust and OS X.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Toto - Heroku blogging in 10 seconds & 230 LOC5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-02-03
- Popol: Minimal non-blocking I/O with Rust4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-07-19
- Why OS X just doesn't cut it3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-18
- Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-04-26
What Hacker News says?
I never see popol [1] mentioned in these discussions: Popol is designed as a minimal ergonomic wrapper around poll, built for use cases such as peer-to-peer networking, where you typically have no more than a few hundred concurrent connections. It’s meant to be familiar enough for those with experience using mio, but a little easier to use, and a lot smaller. It shows a lot of promise. [1]: https://cloudhead.io/popo…
Comment linking /popol/
on “Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work”Submitted Rx – Extensible pixel editor implemented in Rust, inspired by Vi as a story · 349 points
HN discussionI don't have any reference material/tutorials, but my major breakthrough with Vim was when I understood that normal mode is the norm. Anytime you're not entering text, be in normal mode. Remap jk or jj to escape. Get in the habit of typing it whenever you're done adding text. Use hjkl for movement instead of the arrow keys. Learn the f,t, and o commands. http://cloudhead.io/2010/04/24/staying-the-hell-out-of-inser...
Comment linking /2010/04/24/staying-the-hell-out-of-insert-mode/
on “Four Years of Rust”Submitted Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi) as a story · 117 points
HN discussionI'll indications point to this GitHub user [1], Alexis Sellier [2], as the engineer behind this. Good luck with such an ambitious goal. I'd love to see it. [1]: https://github.com/cloudhead [2]: https://cloudhead.io/
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on “Radiant Computer”Submitted Toto - Heroku blogging in 10 seconds & 230 LOC as a story · 65 points
HN discussionI'd just like to mention popol here [1]: Popol is designed as a minimal ergonomic wrapper around poll, built for use cases such as peer-to-peer networking, where you typically have no more than a few hundred concurrent connections. It’s meant to be familiar enough for those with experience using mio, but a little easier to use, and a lot smaller. [1]: https://cloudhead.io/popol/
Comment linking /popol/
on “Building a shared vision for Async Rust”Submitted Why OS X just doesn't cut it as a story · 62 points
HN discussionI've been using something very similar for my blog for the past month or so, it's called Toto. Flat file, git, Ruby, Markdown, Disqus, etc. Check it out: http://cloudhead.io/toto and a good post on how to get up and running http://fadeyev.net/2010/05/10/getting-started-with-toto/ . It was really fast and simple to go from 0 to blogging. The default template is nice too (jlank.com)
Comment linking /toto
on “How To: WordPress to Jekyll”Submitted On Writing & Drawing as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttp://cloudhead.io/toto (Ruby) http://github.com/may/yabe (Scheme. Barely started.)
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on “Git 1.7.7 changes affecting the everyday developer”Submitted Nakamoto: A new Bitcoin light-client in Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDoes OS X even let you turn off an external monitor yet? (Via a control panel setting or other software driven interface?) In Linux and Windows I can use the OS to turn it off. The Mac forces me to unplug the monitor or power it off manually. Didn't OS X users just get the ability to resize windows by any edge or corner? They only had to wait 10 years for that wonderful feature. How about being able to properly repl…
Comment linking /2011/04/18/why-osx-doesnt-cut-it/
on “The $80 web development workstation”Submitted Popol: Minimal non-blocking I/O with Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor someone who is singing the praises of linux, his website (it does look like his personal website) is pretty awesome. Specially http://cloudhead.io/
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on “Why OS X just doesn't cut it”Submitted Popol: Minimal non-blocking I/O with Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTo become a vim power user, you will really need to understand how and why vim works the way it does and how you should think about editing while using vim. Once you have gone through some of the great tutorials on basic vim usage take a look at these: Stay out of insert mode: http://cloudhead.io/2010/04/24/staying-the-hell-out-of-inser... Good explanation of how vim commands are actually formulated (Stack Overflow…
Comment linking /2010/04/24/staying-the-hell-out-of-insert-mode/
on “Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with Vi(m)”Submitted Popol: Minimal non-blocking I/O with Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOk. Making a resume: If you're a ruby-mentality guy and have some money for hosting then check these out (in no specific order): Enki - https://github.com/xaviershay/enki Toto - http://cloudhead.io/toto Jekyll - http://jekyllrb.com Nanoc - http://nanoc.stoneship.org Timeless - http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless Otherwise... Just use Posterous. :P
Comment linking /toto
on “Ask HN: What are you fellow geeks using for blogging?”Thanks for your comment. I have to say I am a bit hurt by Wordpress UX and (no flamewar intended) its PHPness. I think I am going for Posterous. If I could host my own blog there are three interesting options I would ponder: toto - http://cloudhead.io/toto jekyll - http://jekyllrb.com timeless - http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless
Comment linking /toto
on “Ask HN: What are you fellow geeks using for blogging?”toto! http://cloudhead.io/toto
Comment linking /toto
on “Ask HN: What are you fellow geeks using for blogging?”What's the deal? That's not the original URL. This is: http://cloudhead.io/2011/04/18/why-osx-doesnt-cut-it/ Did that site get the author's permission to post it elsewhere?
Comment linking /2011/04/18/why-osx-doesnt-cut-it/
on “Ask HN: Trying to find recent blog post comparing X11/vim on OS X vs. Linux”