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Travis Jeffery
Personal blog · travisjeffery.com/b · on HN as travisjefferyprogrammingproductivity
Travis Jeffery's personal blog at travisjeffery.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Search a git repo”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Travis Jeffery's blog for its posts on searching git repositories, including a git grep writeup and tips on configuring git grep to get an ack-style interface.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hacker, writer, good guy.
Most-linked posts?
- Search a git repo5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-02-07
- I'll Take Pkg over Internal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-02
- Text processing w/NSLinguisticTagger: implementing Writer Pro's syntax control2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-27
What Hacker News says?
Totally, I use it all the time now. Here's a pretty great writeup on git grep that was on HN recently: http://travisjeffery.com/b/2012/02/search-a-git-repo-like-a-...
Comment linking /b/2012/02/search-a-git-repo-like-a-ninja/
on “Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers”Submitted Search a git repo as a story · 85 points
HN discussionhttp://travisjeffery.com/b/2013/12/implementing-writer-pros-... Here's how to implement the feature iA's saying is such an innovation in < 20 lines.
Comment linking /b/2013/12/implementing-writer-pros-syntax-highlighting-using-nslinguistictagger/
on “Don't Support Information Architects”Submitted I'll Take Pkg over Internal as a story · 41 points
HN discussionYou can tweak some git grep config settings and get the ack UI and because it's git grep it's got most of the code conveniences too as well as the speed. http://travisjeffery.com/b/2012/02/search-a-git-repo-like-a-...
Comment linking /b/2012/02/search-a-git-repo-like-a-ninja/
on “GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep”Submitted Using PostgreSQL's hstore with Rails as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote a similar article here sometime ago: http://travisjeffery.com/b/2012/02/using-postgress-hstore-wi... I go over how to use the keys as fields, and some other common problems.
Comment linking /b/2012/02/using-postgress-hstore-with-rails/
on “NoSQL with Postgres - Using Hstore in Rails”Submitted I'll Take Pkg over Internal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search a git repo like a ninja as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search a Git Repo Like a Ninja as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Git's Include for Private Configuration Information (Like Github Tokens) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Inspector's New Dock to Right Feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Find Rails Partial References in Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search a Git Repo Like a Ninja as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'll Take Pkg over Internal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text processing w/NSLinguisticTagger: implementing Writer Pro's syntax control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Test Starting Backbone's History as a story · 1 points
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