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Victor Engmark

Personal blog · paperless.blog · on HN as l0b0programmingproductivity

Victor Engmark writes Paperless, a personal blog at paperless.blog about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Start Test Names with “Should””. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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26mentions?
8HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2023

Victor Engmark's mostly technical blog - now with less paper!

The author on HN?

l0b0 · 4,468 karma · member since 2016

Blog: https://paperless.blog/ My book, The newline Guide to Bash Scripting: https://www.newline.co/courses/newline-guide-to-bash-scripting [ my public key: https://keybase.io/l0b0; my proof: https://keybase.io/l0b0/sigs/-sU_dPlI9HzZthatZd5JCO9gZLIX2_pvhEeNmJDCjLQ ]

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Start Test Names with “Should”
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-06
  2. The Lost Taglines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-24
  3. Consistent Fonts in Firefox
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-22
  4. Dependabot on Gitlab (2016)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-16
  5. We Need Programming Mentors
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://paperless.blog/ Code & contents: https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/victor-engmark.gitlab.io Built using Nix & Jekyll, with some linting and Dependabot support.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  2. Submitted Interactive NixOS Tests as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://paperless.blog - mostly programming, mostly "here's something neat which might be useful to others".

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  4. Submitted echo 'I wrote a Bash book' >> /dev/world as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Faux Idempotency as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Consistent Fonts in Firefox as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why I'm not working on vCard validators as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Lost Taglines as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Start Test Names with “Should” as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Nightly Rust Development with Nix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted We Need Programming Mentors as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted We Need Programming Mentors as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted LLM Etiquette as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Nightly Rust Development with Devenv as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Research Replication Attempt as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Testing desktop notifications with NixOS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The Lost Taglines as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Git Bisect Run Techniques as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Being Open about Openness as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Nix Shell Template as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Consistent Fonts in Firefox as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Dependabot on Gitlab (2016) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Start test names with “should” (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Start Test Names with “Should” as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Test Naming Tips – Paperless as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Dependabot on Gitlab as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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