Literate Devops with Emacs

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people point to it as the best demonstration of literate devops, showing documentation and execution woven together in Emacs.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Howard Abrams

Topic

literate devops with emacs

Format

demo

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This is the blog of Howard Abrams, who also has a great YouTube channel full of Emacs demos and tutorials. His video on literate programming for DevOps via Emacs' Org-mode was very impressive and inspiring to me. It's my favorite. :) [VIDEO]

• Emacs org-mode supports a lot of languages [1] and you can mix and match within a file. Howard Abrams literate devops is an interesting example of what org-mode code blocks can do. [2][3] Org-mode also allows embedding images or source blocks in languages like LaTeX …

• I use org-mode everyday, as well. And the org-babel literate programming environment is a game changer, and something I find new uses for all the time. Check out this literate devops video [1] But I share your sentiment for the stability issues which I think …