Andrey Orst

andreyor.st · Personal blog · on HN since 2023

Andrey Orst writes about Emacs, Kakoune, Fennel, Clojure, and Lisp-style programming tools.

What HN saysHN links it for editor and Lisp posts, and commenters note he writes in Emacs org files exported to Hugo.
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Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    You don't need a terminal emulator
    3 people · 12 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
  2. 2
    A Programming System
    3 people · 6 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)
    2 people · 150 points · first shared 2024 · 40 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Migrating from Emacs lsp-mode to Eglot
    2 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
  5. 5
    Why Kakoune
    2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
  6. 6
    We need to talk about parentheses (2020)
    1 people · 91 points · first shared 2024 · 195 comments on HN
  7. 7
    Gnome is better macOS than macOS
    1 people · 68 points · first shared 2025 · 124 comments on HN
  8. 8
    Fennel libraries as single files (2023)
    1 people · 65 points · first shared 2025 · 23 comments on HN
  9. 9
    Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua
    1 people · 39 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
  10. 10
    Emacs GUI Library
    1 people · 33 points · first shared 2023 · 6 comments on HN
  11. 11
    Replacing Clojure-lsp with clj-kondo and Refactor-nREPL
    1 people · 25 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  12. 12
    Why today's phones are so boooooring?
    1 people · 18 points · first shared 2024 · 52 comments on HN
  13. 13
    Text Editors (2020)
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  14. 14
    Condition system for Fennel language and Lua runtime
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  15. 15
    macOS Music Players
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 3 comments on HN

What HN people wrote when they linked it

Kexoth · 2025-07-23
If so can you reccomend (link here) some of the resources which got you started? FWIW there are blog posts from the same author of the Emacs setup: https://andreyor.st/tags/game1/
ploum · 2024-01-16
There’s also Kakoune, which is very similar to Helix. See https://andreyor.st/posts/2023-09-20-why-kakoune/
BeetleB · 2023-07-11
He definitely is using Emacs for most of it. He authors his posts in org files, and uses ox-hugo to export to Hugo. I do something similar for my blog, except Pelican is my backend. https://andreyor.st/posts/2022-10-16-my-blogging-setup-with-emacs-and-…
terracottalite · 2023-07-11
Sadly, it seems it is just hugo. He mentions hugo in a post[1]. [1]: https://andreyor.st/posts/2020-06-05-managing-background-processes-fro…

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