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Tammer Saleh

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Tammer Saleh's personal blog at tammersaleh.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2009–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on configuring Vim and managing plugins, including Pathogen and a script to update Vim bundles. Commenters point to these as practical Vim setup references.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Tammer Saleh

Most-linked posts?

  1. /posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-pathogen
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. My .vim folder would be a gigantic mess without Pathogen. I recommend using Tammer Saleh's update_bundles script ( http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-path... ) to keep your vim plugins up to date.

    Comment linking /posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-pathogen

    on “Vim & Python: Making yourself at home”
  2. Submitted The Number One Trait of a Great Developer as a story · 209 points

    HN discussion
  3. A few people have mentioned vimballs as a plugin solution. There are (at least) two other potential solutions for plugin handling: Pathogen and Vimana. Pathogen is what the blog author is actually using already, but he didn't realize it initially. He refers to a .vim repo on Github that "does some magic where [it] puts each plugin in its own directory under /~.vim/bundles/." What he describes here is based on Tim Po…

    Comment linking /posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-pathogen

    on “The Great Vim / Textmate Debate: Opinion #56 - How to make Vim more accessible”
  4. Submitted Manage your GOPATH with direnv as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Trick for managing Heroku environment variables for local development as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Stop Looking for Trouble as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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