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Ismail Badawi

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Ismail Badawi's personal blog at ismail.badawi.io covers programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Compositional Nature of Vim (2014)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

Linked as an earlier article on the compositional nature of Vim, cited in a thread titled 'Vim as Language'. The comment only points to it as a similar piece and does not evaluate the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Compositional Nature of Vim (2014)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. I read a similar article a couple months ago: http://ismail.badawi.io/blog/2014/04/23/the-compositional-na...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/04/23/the-compositional-nature-of-vim/

    on “Vim as Language”
  2. Submitted The Compositional Nature of Vim (2014) as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Writing a code coverage tool as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion

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