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Jon Aquino
Personal blog · jonaquino.blogspot.comprogrammingwriting
Jon Aquino's personal blog at jonaquino.blogspot.com covers programming and writing. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jon Aquino's blog as a source for his older posts on browser shorthands (Yublin), Firefox side tabs and extensions, yubnub keywords, and a list of technical book tables of contents.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
For your enjoyment, here is a part of the article being read in a Yoda voice by a pretty good speech synthesizer: https://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2022/06/grug-brained-develope...
Comment linking /2022/06/grug-brained-developer-in-yoda-voice.html
on “The Grug Brained Developer”Submitted Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard (2005) as a story · 21 points
HN discussion"Learn x in -1 days" books follow that pattern, but original ones? Not this one: http://www.stroustrup.com/3rd_tbl.html Or this one: http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html Or this one: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/toc/toc.html Or this one: http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2010/04/table-of-contents-for-... In general, once you know a few different languages and want to learn a new one, read the language spec or…
Comment linking /2010/04/table-of-contents-for-art-of-computer.html
on “Why can’t we read anymore?”Submitted Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'Nexis Keyboard (2005) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionPffffft. Agree. Terrible writing. Omnibrowser, camino, opera, and even google chrome had this. There was an extension i used in 2006/2007 called vertigo which was popular but stopped working in ff 2 [1]. Also check out [2] [1] http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2007/09/firefox-extension-vert... [2] http://www.sidewise.info/
Comment linking /2007/09/firefox-extension-vertigo-vertical-tabs.html
on “Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack”Submitted Yublin: a shorthand for the 600 most common words in the English language as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI discovered [Yublin]( https://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2007/06/yublin-shorthand-for-... ) a while back which set out to do exactly this: create 1-3 letter shorthands for the 600 most common words in English. And sure enough, "the -> t" is at the top of the list.
Comment linking /2007/06/yublin-shorthand-for-speed-writing.html?m=1
on “Show HN: I automated 1/2 of my typing”Submitted From code to poetry - "A Poetic for Software Engineers" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've been using yubnub.org since it was created (edit: 5 years! http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2005/06/yubnub-my-entry-for-ra... ). I see the value in just "discovering" new keywords (rather than having to create them in my browser), which is why I use it. Not sure you can convince me I need to install a plugin though.
Comment linking /2005/06/yubnub-my-entry-for-rails-day-24-hour.html
on “Review my startup -- Entogo”
