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Personal blog · szeryf.wordpress.comprogrammingweb
require 'brain' is a personal blog at szeryf.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Way beyond cool: autotest + growl + Doomguy + Rails”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Growl 1.3.1 becoming paid. The only comment describes one reader's use of Growl for track-info and debugging alerts and does not assess the linked 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.
The blog with the bug.
Most-linked posts?
- Way beyond cool: autotest + growl + Doomguy + Rails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-12-14
What Hacker News says?
The key to making Growl good is to prune what it notifies for. What do you actually care about? Me, I mostly use it as an iTunes track info display, just a little note in the bottom corner of my screen that fades in and out quietly, and reappears when I hit a hotkey. I've also used it to display error messages when debugging an Applescript. There's one guy who uses it to [give himself instant visual feedback when he…
Comment linking /2007/07/30/way-beyond-cool-autotest-growl-doomguy/
on “Growl 1.3.1 is out, no longer free”Submitted Tales from the WTF company, part I as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tales from the WTF company, part II as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Palace-driven development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Way beyond cool: autotest + growl + Doomguy + Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussion