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Ian Y.E. Pan
Personal blog · ianyepan.github.io/postsprogramming
Ian Y.E. Pan's personal blog at ianyepan.github.io covers programming. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Building an Intelligent Emacs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on zsh and Emacs: one on moving away from Oh My Zsh to plain zsh to speed up shell startup, and one on Emacs appearing in pop culture.
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.
software engineer, emacs enthusiast, keyboard lover. occasionally nerdy.
Most-linked posts?
- Building an Intelligent Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Oh-my-zsh is very bloated. You might not need it, since its most used features can be implemented with zsh directly: https://ianyepan.github.io/posts/moving-away-from-ohmyzsh/
Comment linking /posts/moving-away-from-ohmyzsh/
on “Speeding up my ZSH shell”Submitted Building an Intelligent Emacs as a story · 253 points
HN discussionHilariously, the Arctic Blast screenshot seems to be the Audacity audio editor with Emacs overlaid! https://ianyepan.github.io/images/arctic-blast-emacs.png
Comment linking /images/arctic-blast-emacs.png
on “Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture”Submitted Building an Intelligent Emacs (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Uniform Initialization – Benefits and Pitfalls as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
