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Shiv J.M.
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Shiv J.M. writes A Place For My Head, a personal blog at shivjm.blog about programming and web. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its walkthrough of using difftastic inside Emacs, including comparisons of diff views such as unified versus split diffs.
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.
I’m Shiv J.M., a software developer from India. I write about technology & software development (Technology); my work (Work); movies, shows, books & games (Thoughts & Spoilers); and whatever else is on my mind (Journal).
What Hacker News says?
This blog post also details using difftastic within emacs and has neat comparisons: https://shivjm.blog/better-magit-diffs/
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