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Perfumed Nightmare

Personal blog · danielsz.github.ioprogrammingphilosophy

Perfumed Nightmare is a personal blog at danielsz.github.io about programming and philosophy. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Live coding with Clojure and Emacs”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
6HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts on live coding with Clojure, cited in an HN thread about the Brackets editor as a comparison to impatient-mode for Emacs. The comment gives links only, with no comment on the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog for somnambulisps

Most-linked posts?

  1. Live coding with Clojure and Emacs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-04
  2. Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-14
  3. Ghosts in the machine (the Clojure runtime)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. vdm · 2014-02-07
    impatient-mode for emacs. http://www.50ply.com/blog/2012/08/13/introducing-impatient-m... http://danielsz.github.io/2014/01/20/Live-coding-with-Clojur...

    Comment linking /2014/01/20/Live-coding-with-Clojure-and-Emacs/

    on “Brackets, a code editor”
  2. danielszm · 2019-08-14

    Submitted Lisp is not based on the Lambda Calculus as a story · 285 points

    HN discussion
  3. danielszm · 2014-02-28

    Submitted The pleasantness of Om as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  4. danielszm · 2024-08-03

    Submitted Lisp's Grandfather Paradox as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  5. lisa_henderson · 2016-05-15

    Submitted Ghosts in the machine (the Clojure runtime) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. llambda · 2013-06-07

    Submitted In the mood for Lisp as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. TuLithu · 2022-02-14

    Submitted Lisp does not equal lambda calculus as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. danielszm · 2017-08-07

    Submitted Timed idempotence with side-effects in Lisp style as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. danielszm · 2016-05-11

    Submitted Ghosts in the machine: an in-depth exploration of code reloading in Clojure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. danielszm · 2014-02-04

    Submitted Live coding with Clojure and Emacs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. danielszm · 2014-01-15

    Submitted Lisp's nested syntax as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. tosh · 2019-05-25

    Submitted Finding Files as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. tosh · 2019-05-24

    Submitted Finding Files (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. danielszm · 2015-01-21

    Submitted Om in the Real World, a Case Study as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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