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llimllib's notes
Personal blog · notes.billmill.org/blog · on HN as llimllibprogrammingproductivity
llimllib's notes is a personal blog at notes.billmill.org about programming and productivity. Since 2023, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “How I use Git worktrees (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal programming notes, such as a page on jq. One commenter disputes its claim that jq is largely unmaintained, saying ownership was transferred and fixes are unreleased.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How I use Git worktrees (2024)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-03-06
- Complex for Whom?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-13
- An AI tool I find useful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-28
What Hacker News says?
I have a blog post[1] and accompanying repo[2] that shows how to use SEA to build a binary (and compares it to bun and deno) and strip it down to 67mb (for me, depends on the size of your local node binary). [1]: https://notes.billmill.org/programming/javascript/Making_a_s... [2]: https://github.com/llimllib/node-esbuild-executable#making-a...
Comment linking /programming/javascript/Making_a_single-file_executable_with_node_and_esbuild.html
on “Modern Node.js Patterns”Submitted What are the "worst" spelling bee pangrams? as a story · 104 points
HN discussionI maintain a more comprehensive list here: https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/mac_os/mac_os_comm... But I don’t have uuidgen!
Comment linking /computer_usage/mac_os/mac_os_command_line_programs.html
on “Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities”Submitted Modern Unix Tool List as a story · 61 points
HN discussionFramework is also super easy to publish to a github site, I wrote up a note with the steps and a sample github action: https://notes.billmill.org/programming/observable_framework/...
Comment linking /programming/observable_framework/github_workflow_for_publishing_an_observable_framework.html
on “Interesting ideas in Observable Framework”Submitted Serving a billion web requests with boring code as a story · 52 points
HN discussionThanks for the insight! There's no actual answer to the question, given that the word list can be set inconsistently, so I had to choose _something_ to go off. The best word list I was able to find is the one hosted by https://www.sbsolver.com/ , but unfortunately they don't distribute it. I got a somewhat better word list for part 2: https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/03/mitzVah_-_the__worst... But it's still imp…
Comment linking /blog/2024/03/mitzVah_-_the__worst__pangrams_part_2.html
on “What are the "worst" spelling bee pangrams?”Submitted How I use Git worktrees (2024) as a story · 31 points
HN discussionhere's my notes from reading the comments: https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/mac_os/mac_os_comm...
Comment linking /computer_usage/mac_os/mac_os_command_line_programs.html
on “macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About”Submitted Eslogger: Trace filesystem events using the Mac OS X endpoint security framework as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI wrote a link blog entry[1] but forgot to update the main note! thanks 1: https://notes.billmill.org/link_blog/2023/09/jq_is_alive_aga...
Comment linking /link_blog/2023/09/jq_is_alive_again.html
on “Antirez' tiny JSON selector library”Submitted How I use Git worktrees as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOnly tangential. I usually enjoy reading public notes of other people, so that's what I did here too. On https://notes.billmill.org/programming/json/jq.html the author says that > jq appears to be largely unmaintained at this point, which is sad They might be happy to learn that after several years of halted development and unreleased improvements & bugfixes, jq ownership got transferred from the original author to…
Comment linking /programming/json/jq.html
on “Antirez' tiny JSON selector library”Submitted Serving a billion web requests with boring code (medicare.gov) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://notes.billmill.org
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted An AI tool I find useful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionObsidian, and I export it to https://notes.billmill.org via https://github.com/llimllib/obsidian_notes
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on “Ask HN: Where do you store notes, articles and other intersting information?”Submitted Complex for Whom? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Antirez' tiny JSON selector library as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complex for Whom? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A command to print terminal color codes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I use Git worktrees as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Love Homebrew as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An AI tool I find useful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Golang SQLite to C SQLite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I use Git worktrees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I use Git worktrees as a story · 1 points
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