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mitchchn.me is a personal blog at mitchchn.me about business and programming. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “OS X Command Line Utilities”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's posts on OS X terminal and command-line utilities, including a follow-up on trying new tools. The comments are mostly bare links or references and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. OS X Command Line Utilities
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-15
  2. OS X Command Line Utilities
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. mitchchn · 2014-05-17
    Thanks! I played with this last night and wrote about it in my followup: http://www.mitchchn.me/2014/and-eight-hundred-more/

    Comment linking /2014/and-eight-hundred-more/

    on “OS X Command Line Utilities”
  2. brianwillis · 2014-05-15

    Submitted OS X Command Line Utilities as a story · 567 points

    HN discussion
  3. danso · 2017-01-01
    I do something similar to the OP. When I'm working on a long project with multiple pieces that I might have left incomplete, I'll use a grep-like (like ack, which has PCRE) to quickly look for placeholders or cusswords: ack -C -i 'tk|to ?do|lorem|fu.k|shit|wt[fh]|[!?.]{3,}' Maybe the OP's goal is to have his phds practice more shell scripting and syntax. But it seems the same effect could be achieved with grep and t…

    Comment linking /2014/os-x-terminal/

    on “Shell scripts to improve your writing”
  4. AlexeyBrin · 2015-08-30

    Submitted OS X Command Line Utilities as a story · 517 points

    HN discussion
  5. edgeorge92 · 2015-10-05
    http://www.mitchchn.me/2014/os-x-terminal/?x

    Comment linking /2014/os-x-terminal/?x

    on “Any good OS X terminal commands tut for beginner?”
  6. mjleino · 2014-05-20

    Submitted How Apple Can Solve Freemium Creep: Make a Freemium Ghetto as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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