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Vitaly Parnas
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Vitaly Parnas's personal blog at vitalyparnas.com covers productivity, programming and hardware. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Vitaly Parnas writes Vim guides, such as one on typewriter mode for distraction-free writing. In the HN thread on Ensō, one commenter cites the guide as the more complex step beyond a single Vim setting.
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What Hacker News says?
With vim, one can go from single setting[1] to something more complex[2] or use one of the available plugins (e.g. typewriter-vim[3] or vim-goyo[4] or vim-focus[5] or Lite-DFM[6] or zen-mode[7] etc.) [1] https://superuser.com/a/368275 [2] https://vitalyparnas.com/guides/vim-typewriter-mode/ [3] https://github.com/logico/typewriter-vim [4] https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim [5] https://github.com/merlinrebrovic/foc…
Comment linking /guides/vim-typewriter-mode/
on “Ensō: write now, edit later”Submitted Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager as a story · 271 points
HN discussionSubmitted Penti chorded keyboard experiments (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiences with w3m, a console-based web browser (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion