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Personal blog · whalequench.club/blogprogrammingproductivity

whale quench is a personal blog at whalequench.club about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Getting Started with Voice Driven Development”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's posts on Talon, the voice-coding tool, and its phonetic alphabet. One commenter points to a 2019 post on learning to speak that alphabet.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog about using speech recognition for software development.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Getting Started with Voice Driven Development
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. No. Talon has a phonetic alphabet, one chosen to be short and easy to disambiguate. Some detail about it here: https://whalequench.club/blog/2019/09/03/learning-to-speak-c...

    Comment linking /blog/2019/09/03/learning-to-speak-code.html

    on “Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso”
  2. Submitted Getting Started with Voice Driven Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Voice Driven Development (At Strange Loop Conference 2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Getting Started with Voice Driven Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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