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Terminally Undead
Personal blog · countvajhula.comprogrammingsystems
Terminally Undead is a personal blog at countvajhula.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Animated guide to Symex: Emacs structural editing with Lisp”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment links this blog, in a thread on weird lexical syntax. The comment thanks the author for timely advice and mainly complains about editor setup (Emacs, Helix), so it says little about 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.
Most-linked posts?
- Animated guide to Symex: Emacs structural editing with Lisp3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-28
- DSLs that Fit in your Head2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-19
What Hacker News says?
Thanks very much for the advice, it's timely. <rant> It's not so much the editing itself but the unfamiliarity of the ecosystem. It seems it's a square-peg I've been crafting a round hole of habits for it: I guess I should use emacs? How to even configure it such that these actions are available? Or maybe I should write a plugin for helix so that I can be in a familiar environment. Oh, but the helix plugin language…
Comment linking /2021/09/25/the-animated-guide-to-symex/
on “Weird Lexical Syntax”Submitted Animated guide to Symex: Emacs structural editing with Lisp as a story · 145 points
HN discussionSubmitted DSLs that Fit in your Head as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Mindstream for Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DSLs that Fit in your Head as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Designs for Modern Peer-to-Peer Networking – Terminally Undead as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Animated Guide to Symex (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
