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Kristoffer Balintona
Personal blog · kristofferbalintona.me/postsprogrammingproductivity
Kristoffer Balintona's personal blog at kristofferbalintona.me covers programming and productivity. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Emacs-focused posts, including a Corfu and kind-icon completion setup and a post on running Emacs on Android. HN commenters cite them when discussing Emacs as a GUI editor and as a lighter completion option.
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.
A personal site to help me flesh out my ideas and share them along the way
Most-linked posts?
- Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-23
What Hacker News says?
Corfu might be worth a look, as a lighter weight alternative to company mode: https://kristofferbalintona.me/posts/corfu-kind-icon-and-cor...
Comment linking /posts/corfu-kind-icon-and-corfu-doc/
on “Osm.el – OpenStreetMap Viewer for Emacs”Submitted Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good as a story · 254 points
HN discussionWhile Emacs can run in a terminal, it is more widely used as a GUI application that can render images, PDFs, variable-pitch fonts, handle mouse support (drag-and-drop, menus, scrollbars), and even work on touchscreens such as on Android [1]. You are right that VS Code has a "nicer" out of the box UX (this is subjective of course), but Emacs offers a malleable environment. In VS Code, you are limited to what the APIs…
Comment linking /posts/202505291438/
on “VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"”Modern Emacs isn't really meant to be used in a TUI, it has a very capable GUI. And there's a fully native Android port of that GUI. https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs... https://mstempl.netlify.app/post/emacs-on-android/ https://kristofferbalintona.me/posts/202505291438/
Comment linking /posts/202505291438/
on “Termux”