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Philip Monk

Personal blog · pcmonk.me · on HN as pcmonkprogrammingproductivityphilosophy

Philip Monk writes pcmonk's musings, a personal blog at pcmonk.me about programming, productivity and philosophy. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How to Find Frontiers (2019)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
8HN people?
2016–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

Philip Monk's 2014 post asks why there is no general-purpose tree/graph editor. One commenter links it while pointing to the HN discussion of that idea as more interesting than the linked video.

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.

Personal website of Philip Monk

The author on HN?

pcmonk · 1,463 karma · member since 2013

http://pcmonk.me/ http://github.com/philipcmonk/ @pcmonk Engineer working on Urbit phil at pcmonk.me [ my public key: https://keybase.io/pcmonk; my proof: https://keybase.io/pcmonk/sigs/tet7bohLuwyz-BYeBElYMeFlsAYxpfAv-FLVf5l4UZg ]

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Find Frontiers (2019)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-19
  2. Personal logging for humans
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-13
  3. Why Don't We Have a General Purpose Tree Editor?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. timthelion · 2017-01-26
    The discussion here on a general purpose tree/graph editor is far more interesting than the video itself: http://pcmonk.me/2014/04/01/why-dont-we-have-a-general-purpo...

    Comment linking /2014/04/01/why-dont-we-have-a-general-purpose-tree-editor.html

    on “Phlisped: A Graphical Programming Editor Experiment (2014) [video]”
  2. networked · 2017-02-06

    Submitted Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014) as a story · 308 points

    HN discussion
  3. pcmonk · 2017-02-18

    Submitted The idea maze of personal logging (2016) as a story · 136 points

    HN discussion
  4. pcr910303 · 2020-05-13

    Submitted Why Don't We Have a General Purpose Tree Editor? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. setra · 2017-10-07

    Submitted Personal logging for humans as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. setra · 2017-01-25

    Submitted Why Don't We Have a General Purpose Tree Editor? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. pcmonk · 2016-10-13

    Submitted Personal logging for humans as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. escot · 2021-10-17

    Submitted How to Find Frontiers (2019) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. jger15 · 2021-09-15

    Submitted How to Find Frontiers (2019) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. yosoyubik · 2019-06-10

    Submitted How to Find Frontiers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. pcmonk · 2019-02-19

    Submitted How to Find Frontiers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. setra · 2017-01-25

    Submitted Personal logging for humans as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. pcmonk · 2016-10-15

    Submitted The idea maze of personal logging as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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