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Tony Ballantyne
Personal blog · tonyballantyne.comwritingprogramming
Tony Ballantyne's personal blog at tonyballantyne.com covers writing and programming. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “My Emacs Writing Setup”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this author's site for his science fiction, such as the story Recursion about grey goo, and for his use of org mode in writing. Commenters point to it in EmacsConf and dream-themed threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the website of British SF and Fantasy writer Tony Ballantyne. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, message him! Use the links above to find out more about him, his books and short stories, or to contact him. Follow this link for tips and advice on How to Write, or read his blog…
Most-linked posts?
- My Emacs Writing Setup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-27
What Hacker News says?
He's a big user of org mode. http://tonyballantyne.com/tag/org-mode This site is made with org mode? http://www.aethernetmag.com Seems like we might have emacs killer feature for non-developers.
Comment linking /tag/org-mode
on “EmacsConf 2015 Planning Doc”Submitted My Emacs Writing Setup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAn idea: have a talk by Tony Ballantyne http://tonyballantyne.com I always encourage writers to use Emacs and I write in it too. So to have a successful author who uses it to its full potential would be really interesting.
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on “EmacsConf 2015 Planning Doc”Submitted Emacs fiction writing tips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out Recursion my Tony Ballantyne[1]! I'm 90% sure that is where my subconscious pulled the plot from. :D He does an amazing job describing tactics used to fight off grey goo gone wild. [1] https://tonyballantyne.com/recursion/
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on “Choose What to Dream Tonight”Submitted Writing Tools as a story · 1 points
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