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Varuna Jayasiri
Personal blog · vpj.github.io/blogprogrammingweb
Varuna Jayasiri's personal blog at vpj.github.io covers programming and web. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Show HN: Markdown for Edward Tufte style layout”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Tufte-style layout in Markdown, with code examples and their output shown beside the text. Commenters compare its structure to Emacs org-mode.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Markdown for Edward Tufte style layout2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-14
- Show HN: Wallapatta static blog generator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-19
What Hacker News says?
How we got our first enterprise customer (a company in Sri Lanka) http://vpj.github.io/b2b_customer.html tl;dr; We got the contact from one of our investors. First meeting was a product demo and a short presentation. There were long time gaps between meetings (it took several months to get to the trial). We didn't have a simpler way of doing the trial.
Comment linking /b2b_customer.html
on “Ask HN: Describe your first enterprise sale”Submitted Show HN: Open sourcing nearby.lk data models library as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSomething similar (OK, not all that similar) done by a friend http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta/introduction.html
Comment linking /wallapatta/introduction.html
on “Tufte CSS”Submitted Show HN: Small data preparation as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI was working on something similar but with a markdown like syntax instead of latex. Project is still in initial stages though. http://vpj.github.io/docscript/
Comment linking /docscript/
on “Book design inspired by Edward Tufte”Submitted Show HN: Wallapatta static blog generator as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI had to look at the blog post http://vpj.github.io/wallapatta.html and particularly the example code with output to the right before I "got it". It reminds me of Emacs org-mode in terms of the underlying structure and output. On the other hand, I'm not convinced that pytonic semantic white-space is an improvement over org-mode's use of more explicit markup. Maybe it's because for me there's a mental friction betwee…
Comment linking /wallapatta.html
on “Show HN: Markdown for Edward Tufte style layout”Submitted Show HN: Docscript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Page Breaks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Markdown for Edward Tufte style layout as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A few Node.js/JavaScript performance tips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared memory with Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wallapatta Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jsblocks, React, Angular Performance Compared with Weya.coffee as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving From Google Appengine to NodeJS on Amazon EC2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Benford's Law Summation Test Easier to Comprehend? as a story · 1 points
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