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Oliver Caldwell

Personal blog · oli.me.uk · on HN as Olicalprogrammingproductivity

Oliver Caldwell's personal blog at oli.me.uk covers programming and productivity. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Equipping Vim for JavaScript”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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17mentions?
13HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Oliver Caldwell's posts on using D3 inside React and on setting up Vim for JavaScript development. The comments only share the links 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.

Hi there, I'm Ollie! I'm a software engineer living in London but working remotely. On this Obsidian site you'll find an archive of my old blog posts dating back to 2012 as well as a growing web of w…

The author on HN?

Olical · 23 karma · member since 2013

Language and text editor nerd writing Clojure for fun and profit. Lover of (snow|key)boards. https://oli.me.uk/ [ my public key: https://keybase.io/olical; my proof: https://keybase.io/olical/sigs/CrrJNGzokM5jxakpWFSyv4pOp29Q5v5-ZhE_tsRcO04 ]

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Equipping Vim for JavaScript
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-11-11
  2. Conversational Software Development (2020)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-07
  3. Getting Started with Clojure, Neovim and Conjure in Minutes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-11
  4. D3 within React the right way
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-11
  5. Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. sthomas1618 · 2016-06-28
    http://oli.me.uk/2015/09/09/d3-within-react-the-right-way/ https://github.com/Olical/react-faux-dom

    Comment linking /2015/09/09/d3-within-react-the-right-way/

    on “D3 v4.0.0 released”
  2. bsg75 · 2019-03-23

    Submitted Clojure Socket Prepl Cookbook as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  3. macarthy12 · 2014-10-16
    http://oli.me.uk/2013/06/29/equipping-vim-for-javascript/

    Comment linking /2013/06/29/equipping-vim-for-javascript/

    on “Ask HN: Must-have Vim Plugins for JavaScript Dev”
  4. bwidlar · 2019-12-01

    Submitted Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  5. neya · 2012-03-23

    Submitted Writing great Javascript as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  6. shawndumas · 2013-07-29

    Submitted Tuples in JavaScript as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  7. pcr910303 · 2019-11-12

    Submitted Getting Started with Clojure, Neovim and Conjure in Minutes as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. ciconia · 2015-09-11

    Submitted D3 within React the right way as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Olical · 2019-11-30

    Submitted Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel (Lisp) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. pmarin · 2023-03-22

    Submitted Conversational Software Development (2020) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Olical · 2020-06-10

    Submitted Conversational Software Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. tosh · 2019-11-11

    Submitted Clojure, Neovim and Conjure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. gulbrandr · 2013-07-29

    Submitted Use verbose naming in JavaScript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Olical · 2020-06-07

    Submitted Conversational Software Development as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. edward · 2015-02-03

    Submitted Equipping Vim for JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. shawndumas · 2014-03-03

    Submitted Equipping Vim for JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. shawndumas · 2013-11-11

    Submitted Equipping Vim for JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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