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Personal blog · eriwen.comprogrammingproductivity

Test early; Refactor often; Make things is a personal blog at eriwen.com about programming and productivity. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Grep is a beautiful tool”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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16mentions?
16HN people?
2008–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Most-linked posts?

  1. Grep is a beautiful tool
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-14
  2. Find is a beautiful tool
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-11
  3. Effective bash shorthand
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. gtani · 2011-03-24
    http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/UnixCommandLineKungFu.pdf http://eriwen.com/bash/effective-shorthand/ http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201102#28 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68372/what-is-your-single... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211378/hidden-features-of...

    Comment linking /bash/effective-shorthand/

    on “Bash-Fu”
  2. caustic · 2011-08-22

    Submitted Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki as a story · 243 points

    HN discussion
  3. slashams · 2011-08-22

    Submitted Best algorithms book I ever read as a story · 208 points

    HN discussion
  4. zengr · 2011-07-24

    Submitted Find is a beautiful tool as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  5. timexwatchninja · 2008-07-14

    Submitted Grep is a beautiful tool as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  6. devnulled · 2012-11-09

    Submitted Introducing smap.js, a forward polyfill for ES6 Maps as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. rayvega · 2010-07-01

    Submitted Grep is a beautiful tool as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. kumaranvpl · 2017-05-11

    Submitted Find is a beautiful tool as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. alexis-d · 2011-07-24

    Submitted Effective bash shorthand as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. mchengg · 2017-10-09

    Submitted Effective Bash Shorthand as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. mjhea0 · 2014-07-28

    Submitted Making Octopress Fast as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. wendelinsky · 2012-05-30

    Submitted How to make cross-domain requests in JS with CORS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. shawndumas · 2010-10-09

    Submitted Awk is a beautiful tool as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. iamelgringo · 2009-09-24

    Submitted Site monitoring with Python and cron as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. nickb · 2008-07-11

    Submitted Find is a beautiful tool as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. edw519 · 2008-06-13

    Submitted What I wanted to know before I left college: A programmer reflects as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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