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mebble | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Ltag – A Go CLI tool to tag your text lines

Thanks! And yeah we can put an empty line to break off into a new category. So essentially it's one category per paragraph. Within a paragraph, there can be sub-categories one level deep. You can also put tags inline.

I'm still trying to figure out how to allow nesting categories an arbitrary number of levels deep. But I don't want to introduce extra symbols and stuff, it'll be too much complexity too early on. I can imagine that for most cases, headings, sub-headings and inline tags are enough.

I will allow more customisation soon, such as using multiple heading identifiers. I'll add features as the need arises. I haven't used it for very long myself.

mebble | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on to become a better programmer?

I've been programming in JS for years now and only picked up clojure last september. I love it. I started with "Clojure for the Brave and True" and then went on to solve codewars challenges and make web apps in clojurescript.

I completely agree with your point about learning something different. Clojure is really good at handling immutable data, lazy evaluation, macros. So you can write elegant code that would be inefficient/unweildy in something like js or python

mebble | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you switch between programming languages?

I think you should just spend a significant amount of time in both languages and over time you’ll be all good.

I programmed in JS for a year before picking up python. I would struggle with python’s syntax for a while but over time it just worked out. Same thing now with clojure.

I think it’s the same as being bilingual. Your brain just switches effortlessly given enough practice

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