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Jack Baty
Personal blog · baty.netprogrammingproductivity
Jack Baty's personal blog at baty.net covers programming and productivity. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as one of several posts on managing dotfiles with GNU Stow, a symlink-based tool. A commenter notes that this is a common genre, listing it with other similar how-to posts.
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.
Jack Baty's blog — posts, journal, notes.
What Hacker News says?
Which seems to be a bit of a genre, actually: - https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/ - https://protesilaos.com/codelog/gnu-stow-dotfiles/ - https://www.baty.net/2018/managing-dotfiles-with-gnu-stow/ - http://codys.club/blog/2015/07/07/managing-your-dotfiles-wit... - https://www.bharatkalluri.in/post/manage-dotfiles-using-stow... Not to mention these closely-related pages: - http://brandon.inver…
Comment linking /2018/managing-dotfiles-with-gnu-stow/
on “Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow”Submitted I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do I prefer Linux now? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing analytics from all my sites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TheBrain on Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speed Is My Enemy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Printing Web Pages as a story · 1 points
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