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Random Thoughts

Personal blog · carreau.github.ioprogrammingdata

Random Thoughts is a personal blog at carreau.github.io about programming and data. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Leveraging the Jupyter and IPython display protocol”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's posts on Jupyter and IPython, such as the IPython display protocol, when discussing kernels and multi-language notebooks, and on CLI tools with JSON output.

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.

Random, often unfinished thoughts about things, mostly programming and Python

Most-linked posts?

  1. Leveraging the Jupyter and IPython display protocol
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. See project like metakernel [1], in the end a kernel can be "just" controlling process that manage multiple language. So why you won't get "multiple kernel" you can get "one kernel with multiple language". Its just asking for "multiple kernel" which not the best way to describe what you want to do. In the end it the same excpet you do the language dispatch in the backend instead of the frontend. It's also more effic…

    Comment linking /posts/23-Cross-Language-Integration.html

    on “Jupyter Notebook 5.0”
  2. Submitted Planning an Early Death for Python 2 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. This kindof reminds me of the ipython display protocol https://carreau.github.io/posts/29-JupyterCon-DisplayProtoco...

    Comment linking /posts/29-JupyterCon-DisplayProtocol.ipynb/

    on “Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app”
  4. Submitted Leveraging the Jupyter and IPython display protocol as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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