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Paul Mairo
Personal blog · rmpr.xyz · on HN as RMPRprogrammingproductivityculture
Paul Mairo's personal blog at rmpr.xyz covers programming, productivity and culture. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Where did my segfault go?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
The faster you fail, the faster you learn
Most-linked posts?
- Where did my segfault go?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-11
- The fish shell is amazing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-25
What Hacker News says?
If you want to connect your Twitter and Mastodon accounts and enable crossposting, have a look at this[0]. I also wrote a blog post[1] were I talk a bit about my migration experience. 0: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/ 1: https://rmpr.xyz/Migrating-from-Twitter-to-Mastodon/
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on “PeerTube v3”Submitted The fish shell is amazing as a story · 447 points
HN discussion> If I ever find myself in an editor without some kind of vim mode, I'm totally hating life. Most of the Vim emulations are subpar (slow, lacking features), not to mention when they redefine some keybindings[0], so my life still ends up to be miserable. 0: https://rmpr.xyz/Internationalization-with-Doom-emacs/
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on “The Era of Visual Studio Code”Submitted Stop telling people to delete their social media as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNo problem, I also wrote a blog post about Vim sessions[0]. I think it definitely counts as intermediate/advanced vim material. Great work with your article. 0: https://rmpr.xyz/Vim-Session/
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on “A Vim Guide for Advanced Users”Submitted Vim Sessions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMany people mentioned it already, but Mastodon. Shameless plug, I wrote an article[0] about my experience migrating 0: https://rmpr.xyz/Migrating-from-Twitter-to-Mastodon/
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on “Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?”Submitted Where did my segfault go? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAfter using bare WMs for years, I finally settled on i3 inside KDE[0]. Because I found it painful to manage everything myself (polkit, cgroups, ...) plus I already relied on a couple of features from DEs. It's fun for learning purpose, but not so much when you just want things to get out of your way, especially on a laptop 0: https://rmpr.xyz/Frankentile/
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on “Going mouseless”Submitted Atbswp, a Minimalist Macro Recorder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat a coincidence this gets posted today, I posted something[0] a couple of hours ago about how specifically a combination of these rules can bite you very hard. 0: https://rmpr.xyz/Integers-in-C/
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on “Summary of C/C++ integer rules”Submitted Where did my segfault go? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're coming from Twitter, you might find crossposter[0] useful. Shameless plug, I wrote a bit about my experience moving from Twitter to Mastodon[1] 0: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/ 1: https://rmpr.xyz/Migrating-from-Twitter-to-Mastodon/
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on “Giving social networking back to you – Mastodon”Submitted The fish shell is amazing (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://rmpr.xyz My personal website sporadically maintained these days but I hope I can get back to it soon enough.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Migrate from Twitter to Mastodon as a story · 2 points
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