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Nicolas Petton

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Nicolas Petton's personal blog at nicolas-petton.fr covers programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Nicolas Petton's site for Emacs-related work: a redesigned Emacs website resource and a redesign of the Emacs logo. They cite it as examples and do not comment on the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Nicolas Petton

What Hacker News says?

  1. We should also remove obsolete wiki. cf http://batsov.com/articles/2012/03/20/die-emacswiki/ And try to make an awesome replacement, with an attractive website. Like http://spacemacs.org/ ;) (I saw some initiatives such as http://nicolas-petton.fr/ressources/emacs-website/ ) come on, we are in #b11111100000 !! =)

    Comment linking /ressources/emacs-website/

    on “A proposal for removing obsolete Emacs packages”
  2. Submitted Amber 0.12.0 released as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. I guess this is Emacs' "primary" logo, which has remained pretty much unchanged since. But unless you leave the splash screen enabled, the far more familiar logo for most people is the one used for graphical shortcuts and thumnails. This one is derived from the horns of the GNU, forming a stylised 'E' in a circle. As it has been looking quite dated, over the past couple of months Nicolas Petton has been redesigning…

    Comment linking /blog/working-on-the-emacs-logo.html

    on “The Design of the Emacs Logo: Part II (2003)”
  4. Submitted Jtalk presentation at ESUG'11 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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