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tartley.com
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tartley.com is a personal blog at tartley.com about programming and culture. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tartley.com mainly for a tongue-in-cheek post (?p=1267) describing git commits as contours in 'source-code phase space', plus a post on Django with Visual Studio.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A website devoted to oneself has been described — by my own Father, no less — as the greatest act of hubris. Welcome aboard!
Most-linked posts?
- Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-12-16
- ‘Go to Definition’ in Vim for Python using Ctags, Done Right2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-17
What Hacker News says?
Also supposing it were, git is also mathemagically intuitive when you view commits as isomorphic contours in source-code phase space ( http://tartley.com/?p=1267 ) thus mathematical foundations are not enough to distinguish Pijul.
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on “Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system”Submitted Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space as a story · 107 points
HN discussionI was expecting this: http://tartley.com/?p=1267
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on “Git concepts simplified”Submitted Actual vs Perceived threats (aka People are Crazy) as a story · 9 points
HN discussion"simple" http://tartley.com/?p=1267
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on “Simple git workflow is simple”Submitted Unit testing vs Acceptance Testing [Django, but interesting in general] as a story · 6 points
HN discussionctags - http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ should give you "go to definition", no matter what you use emacs or vim here is something with a bit more detail - http://tartley.com/?p=1277
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on “Django with Visual Studio”Submitted Pumping Iron: Dynamic Languages on .Net as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"To visualise this, it’s simplest to think of the state of your repository as a point in a high-dimensional ‘code-space’, in which branches are represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned repository." http://tartley.com/?p=1267
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on “Git bisect (2006)”Submitted A Guide to GIT using spatial analogies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pip install : Lightspeed and Bulletproof as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to Git using spatial analogies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ‘Go to Definition’ in Vim for Python using Ctags, Done Right as a story · 1 points
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