Karl Bartel

Most-linked posts?

1. Simple Testing with `git diff`
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-30
2. Stack Traces Are Underrated
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-08

What Hacker News says?

1. karl42 · 2026-03-01

   Fortunately, AI can also be used to reduce complexity. The case I noticed most often is to use the slightly more ugly API, or duplicate some generic code, but avoid pulling in a dependency. Examples are avoiding UI frameworks and directly accessing the DOM in simple web projects, using the CLI arg parser from the stdlib or adding simple helper functions rather than pulling in left-pad like dependencies. Since managi…

   Comment linking /simplicity-by-llm.html

   on “AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder”
2. zoidb · 2025-03-10

   Submitted Stack Traces Are Underrated as a story · 96 points

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3. karl42 · 2023-09-10

   > I found his GEMINI approach quite funny - it strips out most of the formatting with a regexp. Do you mean the regexp in https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin/blob/master/blog.sh#L4 ? It doesn't remove the formatting, just HTML comments (because they would show up on the page, otherwise) and rel="me" attributes (because they don't work with md2gemini). Feel free to read the blog post about adding Gemini support for…

   Comment linking /gemini-blog.html

   on ““Make” as a static site generator (2022)”
4. lovasoa · 2019-07-29

   Submitted Nuclear Chess as a story · 3 points

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5. lis · 2023-09-10

   Submitted Simple Testing with Git Diff as a story · 2 points

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6. karl42 · 2022-07-30

   Submitted Simple Testing with `git diff` as a story · 2 points

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7. Tomte · 2026-05-14

   Submitted I Prefer Djot over Markdown as a story · 1 points

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8. karl42 · 2026-03-19

   Submitted Can We Make Simpler Software with LLMs? as a story · 1 points

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9. LorenDB · 2025-03-08

   Submitted Stack Traces Are Underrated as a story · 1 points

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10. LorenDB · 2025-02-06

    Submitted Easily Entering Umlauts with a US Keyboard Layout as a story · 1 points

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11. zoidb · 2023-09-18

    Submitted Consistent Handling of Git Repositories with Different Default Branches as a story · 1 points

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12. bundie · 2023-09-10

    Submitted Hacking on “smu”, a Minimal Markdown Parser (2020) as a story · 1 points

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