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Joel Abrahamsson
Personal blog · joelabrahamsson.comprogrammingstartups
Joel Abrahamsson's personal blog at joelabrahamsson.com covers programming and startups. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked post is a Joel Abrahamsson article on selecting columns of text in Visual Studio. It is shared as a bare link under a thread about fonts for programming, with no comment on 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.
Joel Abrahamsson - Software Developer
What Hacker News says?
For Visual Studio: http://joelabrahamsson.com/select-columns-of-text-in-visual-...
Comment linking /select-columns-of-text-in-visual-studio/
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