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Tom Vincent

Personal blog · tlvince.com · on HN as tlvinceprogrammingweb

Tom Vincent's personal blog at tlvince.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Static commenting”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts concern self-hosted blogging and static site generators. The one comment says its author runs Hugo for their own site, without judging 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.

Contract Full Stack Developer

The author on HN?

tlvince · 9 karma · member since 2010

http://tlvince.com/contact

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Static commenting
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-21
  2. Static commenting without third-party services
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. verusfossa · 2016-01-22
    The intimidating thing for me was always how heavy blogging software was. Never really liked the idea of centralized hosting, but hosting some huge PHP blob with a database never felt like it was worth it. I'm hosting my own site now running Hugo and I love it. I agree that most people have moved to centralized hosting, but I'm seeing a resurgence of self-hosting with static site generators like jekyll, middleman or…

    Comment linking /static-commenting

    on “Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?”
  2. EwanToo · 2020-04-27

    Submitted Decorated Lambda Handlers as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. tlvince · 2012-04-24
    A workaround to the "symlink farm" method is making use of "--config=PATH" options for most apps and setting up aliases. Conforming to the XDG base dir standard as much as possible makes sense but can get painful sometimes (e.g. vim: http://tlvince.com/2011/02/03/vim-respect-xdg/ ).

    Comment linking /2011/02/03/vim-respect-xdg/

    on “Dotfiles.github.com - A guide to dotfiles on GitHub”
  4. pcr910303 · 2019-12-21

    Submitted Static commenting without third-party services as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. tlvince · 2012-10-21

    Submitted Static commenting as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. ca98am79 · 2013-07-24

    Submitted Static commenting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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