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pbrisbin dot com is a personal blog at pbrisbin.com about programming. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Applicative Functors”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Haskell and Yesod material, including a Yesod web development tutorial and a post on writing JSON APIs with Yesod. A Vim registers post is also linked.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Applicative Functors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-31
What Hacker News says?
The default register is unnamed: > The unnamed register is the default and holds the most recently deleted or yanked text; it’s what’s called upon when you just type p without specifying a register. Source: https://pbrisbin.com/posts/vim_registers/ Besides + there is also * for accessing alternate clipboard: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard
Comment linking /posts/vim_registers/
on “Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)”Submitted Applicative Functors as a story · 87 points
HN discussion…Seven months? I can't imagine what you were doing for that length of time. It's not that hard[0]. [0]: https://pbrisbin.com/posts/writing_json_apis_with_yesod/
Comment linking /posts/writing_json_apis_with_yesod/
on “Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic”Submitted Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer as a story · 83 points
HN discussionI didn't write it, but I came across something that might be of interest to you: http://pbrisbin.com/posts/writing_json_apis_with_yesod/
Comment linking /posts/writing_json_apis_with_yesod/
on “Getting It Done with Haskell”Submitted Email encryption as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a good tutorial for web development with Yesod: https://pbrisbin.com/posts/developing_web_applications_with_... You might want to try using stack instead of cabal though to ensure you avoid any dependency issues. I think cabal will work fine these days, but I have been using stack/stackage for some time so can't guarantee it.
Comment linking /posts/developing_web_applications_with_yesod/
on “Idris, a language that will change the way you think about programming (2015)”Submitted Applicative Functors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes! So much yes. Many developers write crappy Bash scripts because they don't see it as a real language, but it's an interpreted language just like Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. If you're going to design modular libraries and scripts with best practices, unit tests, etc, for those languages, then you should be doing the same with Bash. If you're writing production scripts using Bash, you should be following software bes…
Comment linking /posts/mocking_bash/
on “Testing Bash with BATS”Submitted Cloud Music: A Comparison as a story · 1 points
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