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Abe Voelker
Personal blog · blog.abevoelker.comprogrammingsystems
Abe Voelker's personal blog at blog.abevoelker.com covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Why I don't use Docker much anymore”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts on the author's Docker use and Alpine Linux personal infrastructure, a git-style approach for lawyers (gitlaw), and a cow toilet. The comments only cite these posts and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I don't use Docker much anymore5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-03-11
- On the death of my family's dairy farm4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-06
- Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-07-02
What Hacker News says?
In the "Death of the Family Dairy Farm" article that was on HN the other day, the clear trend was toward CAFO's (Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations) - aka giant farms. Along with these, there are really clear environmental impacts as the density of the herd/land is just overwhelming to the point where it's not "cows fertilizing the field" but being legally required to create massive manure lagoons, etc. What's c…
Comment linking /2019-03-06/on-the-death-of-my-familys-dairy-farm/
on “CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows”Submitted Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014) as a story · 295 points
HN discussionAnyone calling bc from bash script will eventually arrive at a poorly specified, bug ridden mini Mathematica? Wrt "bug ridden" > if I were having trouble with something Docker-related I would honestly feel like there was a 50/50 chance between it being my fault or a Docker bug/limitation https://blog.abevoelker.com/why-i-dont-use-docker-much-anymo...
Comment linking /why-i-dont-use-docker-much-anymore/
on “Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker”Submitted On the death of my family's dairy farm as a story · 255 points
HN discussion10 May 2012: https://blog.abevoelker.com/gitlaw-github-for-laws-and-legal... I assume if my google-fu were better, I could find references to "RCS for lawyers" or "SCCS for lawyers" though, that were decades old.
Comment linking /gitlaw-github-for-laws-and-legal-documents-a-tourniquet-for-american-liberty/
on “GitHub for Lawyers (2013)”Submitted GitLaw: GitHub For Laws And Legal Documents - A Tourniquet For American Liberty as a story · 239 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019) as a story · 236 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-oriented programming as a story · 110 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I don't use Docker much anymore as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sick of Ruby as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying to Kubernetes Part 1: Introduction and creating cloud resources as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I don't use Docker much anymore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and basically OOP (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the death of my family's dairy farm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm switching from AWS to Google Cloud for new personal projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I [Abe Voelker] dont use Docker much anymore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Continuous integration (CI) of Rails Docker images using fig, make, and CircleCI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails Development Using Docker and Vagrant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't use Docker much anymore (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned from launching my first screencast series, Kubernetes on Rails as a story · 1 points
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