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Kevin Deldycke
Personal blog · kevin.deldycke.comprogrammingproductivity
Kevin Deldycke's personal blog at kevin.deldycke.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Falsehoods Lists (2016)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Deldycke's 2016 list of falsehoods programmers believe, plus posts on transcode video stabilization and empty initial git commits.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Falsehoods Lists (2016)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-02-13
What Hacker News says?
All my CLI: https://kevin.deldycke.com/2006/12/all-my-command-lines/ The one I'm probably the most proud of is that one-liner to produce GIFs: $ ffmpeg -i ./source.mp4 -ss 00:24:52.4 -to 00:24:57.0 -filter_complex "[0:v] fps=12,scale=width=480:height=-1:flags=lanczos,subtitles=source.mp4:si=0:force_style='FontName=Arial Black,Bold=-1,FontSize=26',split [a][b];[a] palettegen=64 [p];[b][p] paletteuse" ./meme.gif Sourc…
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on “Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?”Submitted How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges as a story · 415 points
HN discussionAlready tried to compile such a list, "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Falsehoods Lists": https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be... :D
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on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Falsehoods Lists (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...
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on “List of falsehoods programmers believe in”Arrow is the only Python library with date-aware ceiling and flooring methods. I wouldn't have been able to design and implement Scaleway’s billing pipeline in 2013 without those. More details at: https://kevin.deldycke.com/2020/10/billing-pipeline-critical...
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on “Arrow v1.0: After 8 years, even better dates and times for Python”You can try something similar on linux using transcode with these two lines: transcode -J stabilize --mplayer_probe -i $infile transcode -J transform --mplayer_probe -i $infile -y xvid4 -o $outfile I found this blog post with more info: http://kevin.deldycke.com/tag/transcode/
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on “Video Stabilization on YouTube”I usually initialize my git repos with an empty commit. Several reasons why this is a good idea (detailed in this blog post - http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/05/initialize-git-repositorie... ) I have a git alias for the same - start = !git init && git commit --allow-empty -m \"chore: empty initial commit\" Note: That's not my blog.
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on “GitHub Cheat Sheet”Got this covered at: https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...
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on “A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe”The most useful falsehood list is the following: https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...
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on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates”From 2016: https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...
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on “Falsehoods programmers believe about time (2017)”https://kevin.deldycke.com - Refresh in progress. A static site generated in Python thanks to Pelican, from MyST content, hosted on CloudFlare.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
