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Personal blog · utf9k.net/blog · on HN as spondylprogrammingwriting

utf9k is a personal blog at utf9k.net about programming and writing. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Conditionally setting your gitconfig”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2021

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spondyl · 2,431 karma · member since 2017

Lead Platform Engineer at Halter but speaking for myself. Feel free to contact me at marcus(at)utf9k(dot)net --- automated junk below [ my public key: https://keybase.io/marcuscrane; my proof: https://keybase.io/marcuscrane/sigs/YWbaXGw10b1r6YwVga455NAs0ZLoRjxpVweDkJI6ZYw ] wonderfuldev_gabfjkmp1o6cu5sz6tc8bt47 HackerSmacker profile: https://www.hackersmacker.org/user/spondyl?hs=CEzDD14NmTpisOYE6k spondyl.at.hn meet.hn/city/-36.852095,174.7631803/Auckland Socials: - github.com/marcus-crane - ut…

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Conditionally setting your gitconfig
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-23
  2. Dealing with Multiple Git Hosts
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://utf9k.net/ My site has gone through a lot of iterations but I'm currently trying to balance some cool, newer features with a relatively simple codebase. It's currently using Hugo w/ Markdown but there's also a couple things like a live player powered by server sent events which is neat. I also have a bunch of blog posts and other things. A cool trick is doing some content introspection with Hugo such as what…

    Comment linking /debug/alt-text-missing/

    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  2. Submitted Conditionally setting your gitconfig as a story · 236 points

    HN discussion
  3. Personally, I do this kind of thing manually if I want to send some positive feedback to people who work at companies I like, but they don't have any obvious emails published. A recent example was the CEO of Evernote for the work put in to their behind the scenes series although I don't expect anyone to read it of course. People are busy! I wrote a bit about it here: https://utf9k.net/blog/email-lookup/ Now does thi…

    Comment linking /blog/email-lookup/

    on “Check If Email Exists”
  4. Submitted Plex + Tidal = A Nice Match as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. I believe the _5 syntax is specific to Jupyter, but in Python, the output of the last statement you execute is bound to _ For example, if you simply enter 4 into a Python REPL, printing _ will also print 4 It's really handy if you call a long statement in the REPL and forget to save the output to a variable I wrote about it once if you'd like to see some better examples: https://utf9k.net/blog/lost-python-results/

    Comment linking /blog/lost-python-results/

    on “Show HN: A tool to convert Jupyter notebooks to beautiful blogs”
  6. Submitted Dropbox is way too clingy as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. https://utf9k.net

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  8. Submitted Serving my blog via a govt.nz domain as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Oh neat, I had come across the headless client yesterday (and submitted a now-fixed bug report for it after running into some issues). Before opening HN this morning and seeing this post, I actually wrote a post about how I'm experimentally using headless to publish my blog: https://utf9k.net/blog/obsidian-headless/ Well, that post was my experiment but I'll be looking forward to trying it out going forward. There a…

    Comment linking /blog/obsidian-headless/

    on “Obsidian Sync now has a headless client”
  10. Submitted Setting up Emacs inside of a WSL2 distribution as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. I'm over at https://utf9k.net although I've had the same layout for long enough that I feel like it needs a bit more personality hah. The little live player widget in the top right is my pride and joy :') https://github.com/marcus-crane/utf9k for the source and https://github.com/marcus-crane/gunslinger for the cludgy backend that powers the live player

    Comment linking /

    on “Homebrew Website Club”
  12. Submitted Dealing with Multiple Git Hosts as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. What’s the advantage of this over https://utf9k.net/blog/conditional-gitconfig/ ? I use this technique to use my personal identity by default, and my work identity with repos that are checked out under ~/$WORK I even have git aliases that behave differently depending on which identity I'm using.

    Comment linking /blog/conditional-gitconfig/

    on “gguser – A Simple CLI to Manage Multiple Git Profiles”
  14. Submitted Do demo iPads have a canonical owner? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Doubling checking if an email address exists as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted When automation goes horribly right as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted It will be as if it has always been this way as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Competence Neverending as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Twitter, could you please fix your image servers? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Remind the user what your service does as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Google recently surfaced awful results for movies and TV as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Latency as a Forcing Function as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Configuration Magic as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Publish Your Older Works as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Dealing with Multiple Git Hosts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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