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jarv.org is a personal blog at jarv.org about programming and systems. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Cat without cat on the commandline (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Cat without cat on the commandline (2020)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-30
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For fun over the weekend I started an ambitious project of creating a "pocket size" space trading game, inspired by a classic BBS door game called Trade Wars that I really loved as a kid. I'm keeping a development log to keep myself motivated and wrote the first post about it here https://jarv.org/posts/stardewar-v01/ .
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)”Submitted Cat without cat on the commandline (2020) as a story · 25 points
HN discussioninteresting! yeah I think the one file concept is really neat. Here are some more details about my config with the modular fork if you are curious https://jarv.org/posts/neovim-config/
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on “Notes on switching to Helix from Vim”Submitted Django 1.3 / JQuery tutorial – Making a flashcard game as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCaddy is great and it's configuration is such a breath of fresh air compared to other web servers. As a little self plug I wrote about some cool things you can do with only using caddy config https://jarv.org/posts/cool-caddy-config-tricks/
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on “Deploying Web Apps with Caddy: A Beginner's Guide Caddy”Submitted Using Mise for All the Things as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe NLTK python lib is a great tool. I've been playing around with this recently and having a lot of fun. More recently I started looking at SCOTUS oral transcripts: http://jarv.org/2012/02/a-text-analysis-of-supreme-court-ora... The two articles here by the same author are interesting for folks who are interested in more about sentiment analysis http://streamhacker.com/2010/05/10/text-classification-senti... http:/…
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on “Python NLTK Sentiment Analysis with Text Classification Demo”Submitted The Stages of a Side Project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCaddy had been a joy for me personally coming from NGINX. I especially love the ease of adding a new site and how little config it takes. Small self plug, I recently wrote an article about some cool config examples https://jarv.org/posts/cool-caddy-config-tricks/
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on “Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default”Submitted Cat'ing Files Without Cat as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Filtering YouTube Shorts from RSS Feeds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wild Vibe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted cat'ing a file without cat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Serverless to Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does serverless make sense for a side-project? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 191 ways to echo hello world on the command line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Popular names from ssh break in attempts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the value strict for the samesite cookie attribute as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The joys of self-hosting and tiny side-projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to echo hello world on the command line as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool Caddy Config Tricks as a story · 1 points
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