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Ian McCowan

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Ian McCowan writes small clever rooms, a personal blog at ian.mccowan.space about games, culture and ai. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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

Why HN links it

Ian McCowan's post is a Spacemacs tutorial written by a Vim user, linked on HN as a guide to the Evil-based Emacs kit for people coming from Vim.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. tuhdo · 2015-04-17Recommends
    Here is your tutorial, from a Vimmer: http://ian.mccowan.space/2015/04/07/Spacemacs/

    Comment linking /2015/04/07/Spacemacs/

    on “Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil”
  2. Submitted Ten Thousand Lifetimes with Roguelikes as a story · 45 points

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  3. Submitted I Don't Like "AI" as a story · 43 points

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