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Noufal Ibrahim

Personal blog · nibrahim.net.in · on HN as noufalibrahimprogrammingwriting

Noufal Ibrahim's personal blog at nibrahim.net.in covers programming and writing. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Creating a presentation by hand using calligraphy”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2016–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

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noufalibrahim · 2,667 karma · member since 2010

Muslim. Father. Husband. Programmer/Trainer. Amateur Calligrapher. Co-founder of http://hamon.in Personal website at http://nibrahim.net.in Other projects http://emacsmovies.org http://calligraffiti.in Kismet 782c4b

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  1. Creating a presentation by hand using calligraphy
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://nibrahim.net.in I used to run this on wordpress when it was first released. Built a few terrible looking themes for it too. This was a redesign from that time. It was doing using the YUI toolkit. Phones were not a thing then so I didn't consider that. Many of the ideas were taken from snippets of CSS Zen Garden. It's generated using Jekyll and has disqus for comments. I wrote an emacs mode https://github.com/…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  2. Submitted Creating a presentation by hand using calligraphy as a story · 134 points

    HN discussion
  3. This article mirrors much of my own experiences with using ledger. I wrote about my setup here http://nibrahim.net.in/2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_financ...

    Comment linking /2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_finance.html

    on “The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting”
  4. Submitted Creating a presentation by hand using calligraphy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. I used to be a heavy ledger-cli user and wrote about my setup here http://nibrahim.net.in/2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_financ...

    Comment linking /2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_finance.html

    on “Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting”
  6. +1 to that. I wrote about my use of the tool here when I was freelancing http://nibrahim.net.in/2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_financ...

    Comment linking /2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_finance.html

    on “Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?”
  7. I used to do it for my kids and wrote some articles on why and how on my blog here http://nibrahim.net.in/2011/09/06/homeschooling_in_india_par... I moved towns and my main issues were 1. Lack of a like minded community who were willing to invest time and energy like I was. It's a demanding journey and not one that's easy (or even possible) to do alone. 2. Lack of insight into what the future holds esp. from the POV…

    Comment linking /2011/09/06/homeschooling_in_india_part_1.html

    on “Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?”
  8. http://nibrahim.net.in . Not updated frequently. Mostly personal with a drop of technology. I've been on this hosting provider (hcoop.net) since 2002ish.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”

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