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Hsiaoming Yang
Personal blog · lepture.com/enprogrammingculture
Hsiaoming Yang writes lepture, a personal blog at lepture.com about programming and culture. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hsiaoming Yang's blog for a Vundle vs Pathogen comparison for Vim plugin managers, and a Chinese-language article on CSS font declarations. One comment cites the blog's RSS feed XSLT setup.
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.
Hsiaoming Yang (lepture), an independent developer and open source maintainer.
What Hacker News says?
For RSS feeds, XSLT stylesheets are used to display a human-readable version in the browser. Random example: https://lepture.com/en/feed.xml This is useful because feed URLs look the same as web page URLs, so users are inclined to click on them and open them in a web browser instead of an RSS reader. (Many users these days don't even know what an RSS reader is). The stylesheet allows them to view the feed in the bro…
Comment linking /en/feed.xml
on “XSLT RIP”Submitted The Unpleasant Part of Open Source as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCheck out vundle http://lepture.com/work/vundle-vs-pathogen/ https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Comment linking /work/vundle-vs-pathogen/
on “HappyEdit: A Vim-inspired, modern, open source text editor”Submitted Markdown Parsers in Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've written an article on Chinese fonts too. But it is in Chinese: http://lepture.com/zh/2014/chinese-fonts-and-yue-css
Comment linking /zh/2014/chinese-fonts-and-yue-css
on “A Guide to Chinese CSS Font Family Declarations”Submitted Felix Felicis as a story · 1 points
HN discussion