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Mark Hanford Nichols

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Mark Hanford Nichols writes Zanshin.net, a personal blog at zanshin.net about programming and productivity. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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4HN people?
2013–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a link archive update. The comments describe the author's personal project to track the resources they read and to keep a record of their own progress, which they could look back on.

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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Fighting with formatting... Do you track yourself? Do you check, what you are reading, and verify your own progress? Some time ago I started thinking about my problems with Google search, and was inspired by other project to write a program for myself. Throughout my life I have found many resources worthy of my time, but which I have lost, or forgotten about. I wanted to change that. I wanted to be able to look back…

    Comment linking /2022/09/11/automating-a-reading-list/

    on “Link Archive – 03.2023 Update”
  2. Submitted Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up as a story · 133 points

    HN discussion
  3. Do you track yourself? Do you check, what you are reading, and verify your own progress? Some time ago I started thinking about my problems with Google search, and was inspired by other project to write a program for myself. Throughout my life I have found many resources worthy of my time, but which I have lost, or forgotten about. I wanted to change that. I wanted to be able to look back. I have started my project…

    Comment linking /2022/09/11/automating-a-reading-list/

    on “Link Archive – 03.2023 Update”
  4. Submitted Zsh Config from the ground up as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to List Brew Dependencies as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How to List Brew Dependencies as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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