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a flash of light and a distant boom

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a flash of light and a distant boom is a personal blog at blog.soulshake.net about programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2016–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its command-line resume, which runs from a terminal via curl, and for other quirky personal projects. One commenter called it fun but was unsure it still works.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. /2016/04/command-line-resume/
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-10-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://blog.soulshake.net/2016/04/command-line-resume/ curl cv.soulshake.net

    Comment linking /2016/04/command-line-resume/

    on “Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?”
  2. Submitted Storing command line flags as environment variables as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Jhndb · 2019-02-08Recommends
    I found this quite fun, not sure if it still works. http://blog.soulshake.net/2016/04/command-line-resume/

    Comment linking /2016/04/command-line-resume/

    on “Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?”
  4. Too late to edit the above, but here's another! https://underjord.io/live-server-push-without-js.html Edit: more! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9457187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602122 https://mobile.twitter.com/David3141593/status/1372281280772... https://mobile.twitter.com/binitamshah/status/1104750325473…

    Comment linking /2016/04/command-line-resume/

    on “Time.gif (2017)”

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