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Shindo Isshin
Personal blog · shindoisshin.net/blogprogrammingwritingculture
Shindo Isshin's personal blog at shindoisshin.net covers programming, writing and culture. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog by Shindo Isshin. The one linked comment concerns literate programming and whether TeX's input format suits it, citing Gruber on Markdown and a 2014 post. It does not describe the 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.
Martial arts, fitness, Apple, technology, and living and working in Japan.
Most-linked posts?
- Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-29
- “Standard” Markdown Controversy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-23
What Hacker News says?
I've been thinking a lot about literate programming, and I'm positive that Knuth-style LP's worst enemy is TeX. Realistically, an LP system is going to need to prioritize the reading experience of the input format itself, not just the output format after running it through a typesetting system (no matter how powerful the typesetting system might be). Consider Gruber on Markdown, and this 2014 blog post about (what b…
Comment linking /blog/2014/9/6/standard-markdown-controversy
on “tex.web – Version 3.141592653”Submitted Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (2017) as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Standard” Markdown Controversy as a story · 2 points
HN discussion