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Huiming Teo

Personal blog · teohm.com/blogprogrammingproductivity

Huiming Teo's personal blog at teohm.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Shortcuts to move faster in Bash command line”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Huiming Teo's blog for its posts on bash and readline keyboard shortcuts for moving faster in the terminal. Commenters cite them as a reference for terminal editing shortcuts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I build web apps. Currently a full-time dev dad. This is my personal site for experimental work. I write once a while, more often I tweet good reads about tech & life.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Shortcuts to move faster in Bash command line
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. are you serious? you guys need to learn more shortcuts. http://teohm.com/blog/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in-bash-comma...

    Comment linking /blog/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in-bash-command-line/

    on “PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux”
  2. Submitted Using sshuttle in Daily Work as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. This handling comes from readline, rather than your terminal/shell. Readline has many shortcuts available here's a random assortment: http://teohm.com/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in...

    Comment linking /blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in-bash-command-line/

    on “Show HN: Tip – use ctrl and w to rapid delete in terminal / shell”
  4. Submitted Shortcuts to move faster in Bash command line as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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