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(Blog) is a personal blog at kennyballou.com about programming and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Art of Manually Editing Hunks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Erlang/Elixir hot code swapping and on manually editing git hunks line by line. Commenters cite the hunk-editing article as support and note the post's 2016 date.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Art of Manually Editing Hunks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19
What Hacker News says?
It's in the URL :D But yeah, the page doesn't make it clear (and some of the embedded JS has a 2020 date suggesting it's received updates). In the RSS feed too: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 https://kennyballou.com/index.xml
Comment linking /index.xml
on “Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)”Submitted Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016) as a story · 225 points
HN discussionYes, git generally stages just hunks with the patch add mechanism, but it is possible to stage single lines, but it is a bit tedious, see: https://kennyballou.com/blog/2015/10/art-manually-edit-hunks...
Comment linking /blog/2015/10/art-manually-edit-hunks/index.html
on “Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands”Submitted The Art of Manually Editing Hunks as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking Review Branches with Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussion