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Max Shen
Personal blog · m4xshen.dev/postsprogrammingproductivity
Max Shen's personal blog at m4xshen.dev covers programming and productivity. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “You might be overusing Vim visual mode”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as the companion to hardtime.nvim, a Vim plugin that nudges users toward more efficient editing habits. The post explains the rationale behind the plugin's workflow choices.
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.
Product engineer from Taiwan.
Most-linked posts?
- You might be overusing Vim visual mode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-18
What Hacker News says?
> learning when I can be doing something more efficiently hardtime.nvim[1] (or vim-hardtime[2] if you're old-school) do exactly this but within your editing session. There's an associated blog post[3] explaining the rationale behind some of the workflow choices and you can of course bring your own. [1]: https://github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.nvim [2]: https://github.com/takac/vim-hardtime [3]: https://m4xshen.dev/posts…
Comment linking /posts/vim-command-workflow
on “VIM Master”Submitted Practical Vim command workflow (2023) as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted You might be overusing Vim visual mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Vim command workflow (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You might be overusing Vim visual mode as a story · 2 points
HN discussion