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John Anderson

Personal blog · sontek.net · on HN as sontekprogrammingproductivity

John Anderson writes sontek's blog, a personal blog at sontek.net about programming and productivity. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Turning vim into a modern python IDE”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
9HN people?
2010–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link John Anderson's post 'Turning vim into a modern Python IDE' as a reference for Vim setup and plugins for Python development, with commenters citing it as a source for their own configs.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

sontek · 743 karma · member since 2011

https://sontek.net

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Turning vim into a modern python IDE
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-05-09
  2. Turning Vim into a modern Python IDE
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-22
  3. Tips and Tricks for the Python Interpreter
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. a_bonobo · 2015-10-10
    This one's a bit older but I based most of my .vimrc on it: http://unlogic.co.uk/2013/02/08/vim-as-a-python-ide/ and http://www.sontek.net/blog/2011/05/07/turning_vim_into_a_mod...

    Comment linking /blog/2011/05/07/turning_vim_into_a_modern_python_ide.html

    on “A Good Vimrc”
  2. sontek · 2011-05-09

    Submitted Turning vim into a modern python IDE as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  3. streptomycin · 2011-07-29
    I've been using this: http://sontek.net/turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide

    Comment linking /turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide

    on “Vim & Python: Making yourself at home”
  4. mace · 2010-12-28

    Submitted Tips and Tricks for the Python Interpreter as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. andrem · 2012-04-19
    I was looking for a similar solution and you will find your usual suspects: * https://github.com/klen/python-mode * http://code.google.com/p/vim-python-ide/ * http://sontek.net/turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide In the end ask yourself - which problem are you trying to solve by changing your IDE? If it can't be fixed in your current IDE, try something else. I ended up going with Pycharm using Vim key bindings as i…

    Comment linking /turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide

    on “PyCharm 2.5 python IDE released. ”
  6. Cieplak · 2013-04-24

    Submitted Turning Vim into a Modern Python IDE as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. lfborjas · 2011-05-30
    Cool, I'm currently using vim and the fugitive plugin offers a similar functionality: http://sontek.net/turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide#integ...

    Comment linking /turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide

    on “Interact with git from python”
  8. weslly · 2013-02-22

    Submitted Turning Vim into a modern Python IDE as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. sontek · 2012-04-03

    Submitted The Pylons Project is looking for GSoC 2012 Students as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. sontek · 2011-12-01

    Submitted Writing tests for Pyramid and SQLAlchemy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. kols · 2011-01-14

    Submitted Tips and Tricks for the Python Interpreter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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