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Paul Kuruvilla writes About, a personal blog at rohitpaulk.com about programming and productivity. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Notes on Moving from Vim to Emacs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2020

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Why HN links it

The only comment is a bare list of links in a Time.gif thread, pointing to pages about pushing live server updates without JavaScript and to older HN threads. No comment discusses this blog's writing.

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I'm a software engineer who cares about building high-quality software. I’m also interested in teaching software development and helping people achieve high levels of personal productivity.

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rohitpaulk · 1,708 karma · member since 2015

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Notes on Moving from Vim to Emacs
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-11-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Too late to edit the above, but here's another! https://underjord.io/live-server-push-without-js.html Edit: more! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9457187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602122 https://mobile.twitter.com/David3141593/status/1372281280772... https://mobile.twitter.com/binitamshah/status/1104750325473…

    Comment linking /articles/

    on “Time.gif (2017)”
  2. Submitted I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked as a story · 346 points

    HN discussion
  3. I was in exactly the same situation you're in. Wrote about this a while ago: https://rohitpaulk.com/articles/vim-to-emacs . Took me a couple of weeks to acclimatise, but overall the switch was worth it. If you haven't tried it yet, I'd suggest Doom over Spacemacs (details in the article).

    Comment linking /articles/vim-to-emacs

    on “Magit – A Git Porcelain inside Emacs”
  4. Submitted Write your own Redis in Ruby as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted Build a Toy Redis Implementation in Ruby as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted What good programming practice feels like as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Is practice all you need? as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted A continuous process for improving programming productivity as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Why Go’s Cmd.Run fails without /dev/null as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Moving from Vim to Emacs (2019) as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Notes on Moving from Vim to Emacs as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Using SRV records for service discovery in Python as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Adding Rails Runner to AdonisJS as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Why does request.remote_ip work on Heroku but not Render? as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted My continuous process for improving programming productivity as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Notes on Moving from Vim to Emacs as a story · 1 points

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