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Ryan Frazier
Personal blog · pianomanfrazier.com/postprogrammingwriting
Ryan Frazier's personal blog at pianomanfrazier.com covers programming and writing. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Write a Book with Markdown”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on writing books with Pandoc and Markdown, and on why exceptions can be harmful. Comments only cite the posts as examples or resources, without judging their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ramblings of Ryan Frazier: Programmer, Musician, and Educator
Most-linked posts?
- Write a Book with Markdown3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-13
What Hacker News says?
For any interested, here is my Pandoc book writing setup. I have a couple bash scripts that I use to call pandoc to generate PDFs, HTML, or ePub. Here is the repo https://gitlab.com/pianomanfrazier/pandoc-markdown-book and here is my blog post https://pianomanfrazier.com/post/write-a-book-with-markdown/
Comment linking /post/write-a-book-with-markdown/
on “Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim”Submitted Elm Calculator Part 1 – Introduction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery good discussion. Still, exceptions are dangerous. https://pianomanfrazier.com/post/exceptions-considered-harmf...
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on “The Downsides of Go's Goroutines”Submitted Write a Book with Markdown as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe cost is not that high. There are plenty static site generators or things like pandoc. For example: https://pianomanfrazier.com/post/write-a-book-with-markdown/ You are asking for a responsive weblayout, which excludes any format that LaTeX outputs. Latex is a typesetting engine that does the job before presenting anything and not while presenting it. Its layouts are not responsive by design. So your question if…
Comment linking /post/write-a-book-with-markdown/
on “I Built "The Monospace Web"”