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Mattia Tezzele

Personal blog · mrzool.cc/writing · on HN as mrzoolprogrammingwritingsystems

Mattia Tezzele's personal blog at mrzool.cc covers programming, writing and systems. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Show HN: LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
6HN people?
2015–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One HN commenter linked this blog's TeX boilerplates page in a list of free invoicing tools, so readers know it as a source of TeX templates. The comment does not discuss the writing.

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.

Macintosh computers, Unix system administration, web development, and general text wrangling.

The author on HN?

mrzool · 11,848 karma · member since 2014

Broad technologist working in arts/culture, with background in social sciences. Serial upvoter. https://mrzool.cc mrzool@mastodon.online Berlin, DE / South Tyrol, IT --- “Never use computers, computers are terrible, always avoid computers.” —Ethan Marcotte “Incurious people terrify me.” —Coda Hale --- [my public key: https://keybase.io/zool; my proof: https://keybase.io/zool/sigs/9JND0TW7QD9xj6as-iFm5IOq9QrLo8t1GfClmzGeL2I]

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-12-01
  2. Typesetting automation – Lean document production workflow with Pandoc and LaTeX
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Thanks for all the feedback! Make sure to check out this article where I talk in depth about a typical workflow and the rationale behind this project: http://mrzool.cc/writing/typesetting-automation/

    Comment linking /writing/typesetting-automation/

    on “Show HN: LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System”
  2. Submitted Show HN: LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System as a story · 104 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://www.free-invoice-generator.com/ http://invoiceatonce.com/ http://mrzool.cc/tex-boilerplates/ http://invoiceomatic.io/

    Comment linking /tex-boilerplates/

    on “Ask HN: Free/Open-Source Invoicing Software?”
  4. Submitted Sensible Bash – Small and opinionated selection of basic Bash configurations as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Where I elaborate a bit on this project, that reached HN's frontpage yesterday: http://mrzool.cc/tex-boilerplates/ Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663298

    Comment linking /tex-boilerplates/

    on “Typesetting automation – Lean document production workflow with Pandoc and LaTeX”
  6. Submitted Typesetting automation – Lean document production workflow with Pandoc and LaTeX as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. 1. Something (paperwork like letters and invoices) in my daily routine was taking more time than necessary and the result was not good enough. I wanted a better system. 2. The need to make dealing with my paperwork as painless as possible. 3. LaTeX, Pandoc and a makefile. 4. http://mrzool.cc/tex-boilerplates

    Comment linking /tex-boilerplates

    on “Ask HN: Show HN Stars”
  8. Submitted Show HN: LaTeX Boilerplates — Plain-Text Document Production System as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Typesetting Automation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted LaTeX Boilerplates – Plain-Text Document Production System as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Typesetting automation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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