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nathansmith.io is a personal blog at nathansmith.io about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

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Why HN links it

Linked in a thread asking why many coders still use Vim and Emacs. The only comment describes Vim git tooling (fugitive, gitgutter) and Neovim's LSP support, and does not discuss the post's 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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. For git in Vim I use the fugitive plugin[1] and I find it's really good. If you find it lacking in any way you can always combine it freely with other plugins. For instance gitgutter[2] that shows diffs in the sign column, giving you an easy view of which lines have been added, removed or changed. There are solutions for the others too. Neovim has for example support for the Language Server Protocol[3] that gives yo…

    Comment linking /posts/neovim-lsp/

    on “Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?”
  2. Submitted Native Emoji Expansion on Mac and iOS as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Things I'm excited for in Neovim 0.5.0: Language Server Protocol as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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