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Omar Khudeira

Personal blog · omar.io · on HN as okhudeiraprogrammingcareer

Omar Khudeira's personal blog at omar.io covers programming and career. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its PS1 generator, a tool for creating shell prompt (PS1) strings. Comments point to it as an earlier PS1 generator and as an alternative with more options.

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.

The author on HN?

okhudeira · 157 karma · member since 2011

https://omar.io

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /ps1gen/
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm happy the following two are getting traffic: - [ByteSize]( https://github.com/omar/bytesize ) (.NET/C#) library which is a utility class that makes byte size representation in code easier by removing ambiguity of the value being represented. ByteSize is to bytes what System.TimeSpan is to time. - [PS1 Gen]( http://omar.io/ps1gen/ ) is a simple bash PS1 generator and reference so you can soup up your command line…

    Comment linking /ps1gen/

    on “Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?”
  2. Submitted Types of Engineers as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  3. Not the first: http://omar.io/ps1gen/

    Comment linking /ps1gen/

    on “PS1 generator”
  4. Submitted When technically right is wrong: Kilobytes as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. hadem · 2013-08-12Recommends
    You might also be interested in this PS1 generator. Seems to have a few more options. http://omar.io/ps1gen/

    Comment linking /ps1gen/

    on “PS1 generator”
  6. Submitted Stop playing pong with your build server as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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