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Weak Opinions, Strongly Held
Personal blog · blog.sulami.xyz · on HN as sulamiprogrammingcareer
Weak Opinions, Strongly Held is a personal blog at blog.sulami.xyz about programming and career. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Cleaning Up Git History”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's literate-calc-mode post, which covers inline calculations in Emacs, and say they use it for quick calculations in their scratch buffers.
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.
Weak Opinions, Strongly Held
Most-linked posts?
- Cleaning Up Git History4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-07-27
- Demystifying Rust's? Operator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
- LLVM Is Smarter Than Me2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-19
- Synchronous Core, Asynchronous Shell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-05
What Hacker News says?
Try https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/literate-calc-mode/ I use it quite often, very handy
Comment linking /posts/literate-calc-mode/
on “Numi – Calculator app for Mac”Submitted What Is in a Rust Allocator? as a story · 94 points
HN discussionI've been arguing that "AI" has very little impact on meaningful technical interviews, that is ones that don't test for memorization of programming trivia: https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/llm-interviews/
Comment linking /posts/llm-interviews/
on “AI killed the tech interview. Now what?”Submitted Cleaning Up Git History as a story · 48 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/literate-calc-mode/ is pretty nice. I always have literate-calc-minor-mode (+org-mode as major) in my scratch buffer for quick calculations.
Comment linking /posts/literate-calc-mode/
on “Run programs in Emacs buffer, seeing their output inline, interactively”Submitted LLVM Is Smarter Than Me as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Language Scalability as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synchronous Core, Asynchronous Shell as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synchronous Core, Asynchronous Shell as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Extension Traits as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted String vs. &str as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying Rust's? operator and Try trait as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying Rust's? Operator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cleaning Up Git History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cleaning Up Git History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cleaning Up Git History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keyboardio Atreus Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jj is the better Git CLI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs Do Not Break Interviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLVM Is Smarter Than Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learnt from Solving AoC in One Second as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cleaning Up Git History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Shape of Tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Traps to Avoid When Reviewing Code Changes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightning Introduction to Nix for Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing for Reasons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Counting Digits in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Type-Level Programming? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being a Journalist Within Your Organisation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Hexagonal Architecture as a story · 1 points
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