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Mark Hansen
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Mark Hansen's personal blog at markhansen.co.nz covers programming and career. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “XMonad and Unity in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on setting up the XMonad tiling window manager on Ubuntu and on backing up Google Photos. Commenters link them as how-to references for these setups, without judging the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a Software Engineering Manager working on Google Maps in Sydney, Australia. I write about software {engineering, management, profiling}, data visualisation, and transport.
Most-linked posts?
- XMonad and Unity in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.104 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-10-17
What Hacker News says?
I'm afraid it would with such a plugin/script on Ubuntu Unity as the menu associated with each of the tiled windows would appear in the top bar of the screen, but I intend to play with this in Unity 2d... http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/
Comment linking /xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/
on “Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.”Submitted Fish sucks (but your shell sucks more) as a story · 71 points
HN discussionIf this kind of thing interests you, I made an app that graphs last.fm song listens in the same way as Wolfram's graphed his emails. I find changes in listening habits correlate well with big life changes. http://markhansen.co.nz/scatter.fm
Comment linking /scatter.fm
on “Learning from 20 years of personal analytics”Submitted Profilerpedia: A Map of the Software Profiling Ecosystem as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI built http://markhansen.co.nz/scatter.fm and http://wirelessmap.markhansen.co.nz/ using Twitter Bootstrap. The experience was awesome, it made it so easy to experiment and get a prototype out the door quickly. It was great for these little visualisation projects.
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on “Can you build beautiful sites with Twitter Bootstrap? Hell yes”Submitted Linux Perf Profiler UIs as a story · 30 points
HN discussion> ...create your own session script to start up the parts of Gnome that you want along with XMonad... On Ubuntu at least I've had success with http://markhansen.co.nz/xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/ (Having the launcher floating around is annoying though, and removing it from the gnome-session file had some unpleasant side-effect that I don't remember.)
Comment linking /xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/
on “Xmonad 0.10 was released”Submitted Book Notes: Data Oriented Design (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInstallation: After you've gotten ghci and cabal from your favourite package manager, just do: > sudo cabal install xmonad xmonad-contrib Then you can get dmenu or dzen for a small menu and trayer for a small system tray. Then use a premade config file from here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive and mess around with it. To learn the keybindings, print this out or make it your wallpaper: http:…
Comment linking /xmonad-ubuntu-oneiric/
on “Xmonad 0.10 was released”Submitted Run a Website Off a Google Sheets Database, with Hugo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in a side project of mine, that lets you visualise your last.fm listening history. I'm looking for feedback (and the touch of a designer) before I launch it. http://markhansen.co.nz/scatter.fm
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on “Last.fm web site primary and failover down”Submitted XMonad and Unity in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOptions I have found: Somewhat manual, using takeout (seems a lot of effort): https://www.markhansen.co.nz/google-photos-backup/ A script using a headless browser (maybe scriptable, but sounds brittle): https://github.com/vikas5914/google-photos-backup
Comment linking /google-photos-backup/
on “Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?”Submitted Awesome Small Software: watch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically Compiling Haml in Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git inside Git as a story · 2 points
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