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Justin Lilly

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Justin Lilly's personal blog at justinlilly.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Writing a static site generator using org-mode”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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18mentions?
9HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on Vim and on a 2009 Google account suspension. Commenters point out a broken link in the Vim post and cite his guess that a misconfigured fetchmail script caused the lockout.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Writing a static site generator using org-mode
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-15
  2. Justin Lilly's post on using org-babel for literate programming.
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-17
  3. Vim & Python: Making yourself at home
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. I was rather inspired by this and decided to write up my tmux config with org-babel as literate programming. Hope someone likes it: http://justinlilly.com/dotfiles/tmux.html

    Comment linking /dotfiles/tmux.html

    on “Tools I Use - tmux”
  2. Submitted Vim & Python: Making yourself at home as a story · 184 points

    HN discussion
  3. There's a bad link in the article. The link to "Vim My new IDE" should be: http://justinlilly.com/vim/my_new_ide.html

    Comment linking /vim/my_new_ide.html

    on “Why I use vim”
  4. Submitted Google account suspended: A post mortem as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  5. Since this is probably posted as a followup the the Justin Lilly debacle, it should be mentioned that Lilly himself speculates that is was a mal-configured fetchmail script that caused the lock-out. http://justinlilly.com/blog/2009/aug/07/google-account-suspe...

    Comment linking /blog/2009/aug/07/google-account-suspended-post-mortem/

    on “How to Back Up Gmail In Linux”
  6. Submitted Gittip: New, Interesting, Important as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  7. AFAIK it's fairly popular, though I'm sure many are happy enough writing markdown files. If you don't use emacs, you're probably not using org– though I believe Github and some others support it in their editors. Literate programming with org[1] seems to be a thing now which, if you haven't seen it yet, might be fun to try out. Searching Github may yield some files like that, but you'll have to wade through all the…

    Comment linking /emacs/literate_programming.html

    on “Ask HN: Do you use emacs org-mode?”
  8. Submitted Javascript testing using JS Test Driver as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Django for Managers & Decision Makers as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Writing a static site generator using org-mode as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Good writeup about oh-my-zsh tips as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Cellphone plans for geeks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Vim & Python: Making Yourself At Home as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Writing a static site generator using org-mode. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Justin Lilly - Server Switch as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Justin Lilly's post on using org-babel for literate programming. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Editor Sampling as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted A better way to handle Django settings files as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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