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River Writes
Personal blog · river.me/blog · on HN as RheingoldRiverprogrammingproductivity
River Writes is a personal blog at river.me about programming and productivity. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Your URL bar is a CLI (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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RheingoldRiver's blog - MediaWiki development, Leaguepedia stories, and productivity hacks
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- Your URL bar is a CLI (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-02
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Though there's some risk of it going away in an upcoming patch, you can also use JavaScript and do pretty much anything you want in a bookmarklet keyword, creating very powerful "advanced searches" for yourself. I have a few examples outlined here - https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/#bookma...
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on “Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search”Submitted Gluing and framing a 9000-piece jigsaw as a story · 72 points
HN discussionDeveloping Quality Technical Information - https://www.amazon.com/Developing-Quality-Technical-Informat... My review + some notes - https://river.me/blog/book-review-quality-technical-informat... (it's very good)
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on “What I think about when I edit (2019)”Submitted Markdown vs. Wikitext as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have a couple bookmarklets scattered in a couple blog posts that you may find interesting / want to add: * https://river.me/blog/bookmarklet-stay-here/ * https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/ * https://river.me/blog/url-bar-is-a-cli/
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on “A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)”Submitted Your URL bar is a CLI (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Chicago Remote: Preferred, hybrid ok Willing to relocate: Depends on location I'm looking for work as a developer advocate/software evangelist/technical writer. I have a background as a developer (Lua, Python, SQL, MediaWiki, React/TS), tech writer (see blog linked below), and community manager. Resume/CV: You can find my blog here: https://river.me/ I write primarily about MediaWiki development, with some…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)”Location: Chicago Remote: Remote preferred, hybrid acceptable Willing to relocate: Not immediately, but by the end of the year I could Technologies: MediaWiki, Lua, Python, React/TS, CSS/Tailwindcss. Website/blog: https://river.me/ Email: in my bio I'm interested in Developer Advocate or similar positions. My background in ten years of working with MediaWiki software has been at the intersection of writing code, pro…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)”Location: Chicago Remote: Preferred, willing to travel as needed Willing to relocate: for the right offer Technologies: MediaWiki, Python, Lua, React, TypeScript, CSS Website/blog: https://river.me/ I am looking for developer advocate / knowledge management / technical writing roles. I have 10 years of experience working with MediaWiki and adjacent technologies, both as a developer and as a community manager, and I…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)”It's a Firefox extension for just me. [0] I've posted it here before, and one user said they'd start using it. I hope someone else finds it useful again. The problem: I wanted to be able to mute League of Legends streams in between games with a hotkey, and without changing visibility of any windows in the process of doing so. This is a much harder problem than you'd think, even with the existence of Autohotkey, and…
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on “Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?”https://river.me I post about things that are interesting to me, which is mostly MediaWiki software-related (which means Lua, JS, CSS, Python, SQL in a MW context), but also sometimes not - I've talked about random unrelated Python libraries, written a bunch of book reviews, etc. Two years into hosting this blog I did also write a post about hosting a blog.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”I would like to emphasize one point that the article mentions, but doesn't expand on, which is Mouse Gestures. Gesturefy is a wonderful browser extension! I can't recommend it enough. Here is a blog post about my mouse gesture config, and why: https://river.me/blog/mouse-gestures/
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on “How I Use My Mouse”I always suggest Developing Quality Technical Information , and I'll link to both Amazon [0] and my personal review of it [1]. This is the best book about writing I've ever read, and it's significantly improved my writing in concrete ways. One small example is that I no longer put gerunds (verbs ending in -ing as a noun) in any title or heading, because these don't translate well into other languages in such a conte…
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on “What I Did Not Learn About Writing in School”