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Sam Stokes

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Sam Stokes writes Five Eights, a personal blog at blog.samstokes.co.uk about programming, career and writing. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Let's talk about confidence”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
4HN people?
2009–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2016

The personal blog of Sam Stokes.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Let's talk about confidence
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Same with the "i" (inner) command. (Technically it's a motion, not a command. "i" as a command just enters insert mode.) To elaborate, since this is one of my favourite vim features, say you have the following code: do_something_with(some + long * complicated * expression) ^ Say your cursor is where the caret indicates. Typing 'ci)' ("change inside parens") in normal mode will: * delete all the text between the two…

    Comment linking /post/767636740/vim-wizardry-1

    on “Ask HN: Suggestions for mastering vim?”
  2. Submitted What Programming is Like as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Inception isn't science fiction (spoilers) as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Let's stop talking about quality as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted What are your Ruby Regex Idioms? as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Move fast with confidence as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Let's talk about confidence as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How to start your own home bar as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Move fast with confidence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Let's talk about confidence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How to start your own home bar as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Three strikes and your out UK new Internet policy. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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