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Peter Downs
Personal blog · peterdowns.com · on HN as peter_l_downswritingcareerstartups
Peter Downs's personal blog at peterdowns.com covers writing, career and startups. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Opening the current Finder directory in iTerm2”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Downs's technical posts, such as one on a first time with PyPI and one on opening iTerm from Finder on macOS. Commenters cite them as practical how-tos.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Opening the current Finder directory in iTerm22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-14
What Hacker News says?
Well written, thanks for sharing. Here's my viewpoint, from the situation of the people asking things of you: http://peterdowns.com/posts/ask-for-help.html
Comment linking /posts/ask-for-help.html
on “I am very real”Submitted Opening the current Finder directory in iTerm2 as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI learned from this: http://peterdowns.com/posts/first-time-with-pypi.html Not bad.
Comment linking /posts/first-time-with-pypi.html
on “Intermediate Python”Submitted On Blogging: A Response to Svbtle and Obtvse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSlightly off topic: in an effort to become a better programmer, and to improve the Python ecosystem, I've tried to write a "for Humans" style logging library. Would anyone mind giving me feedback? http://peterdowns.com/lggr/
Comment linking /lggr/
on “Python for Humans”Submitted Gap Years, Part 1 (a young person's startup story) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConsidering opening the current path in Terminal, there are a few easier ways using Automator[1] or Alfred[2], but from 10.7 on there is a built in feature to do this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420456/open-terminal-here... [1] http://peterdowns.com/posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html (iTerm) [2] http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/1664-open-current-finder-wi...
Comment linking /posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html
on “FinderPath”Submitted What does it mean to grow up? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDon't feel too bad, you're not alone. I got burned in the first big crash last spring: http://peterdowns.com/posts/my-adventure-with-bitcoin.html
Comment linking /posts/my-adventure-with-bitcoin.html
on “Bitcoin Price Slumps Again”Submitted Trying Something New (My Week With Node.js) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionalright i was here https://peterdowns.com — personal website https://freezine.xyz — digital zine
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Ask for Help as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking the NY State Tax Return Captcha with Python and Tesseract as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If You Need Some Help, Ask For It as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Telnet [Shameless Plug] as a story · 1 points
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