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Alex Mackenzie

Personal blog · whynowtech.substack.comprogrammingsystems

Alex Mackenzie writes Why Now, a personal blog at whynowtech.substack.com about programming and systems. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Nix – Containers Without Containers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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4HN people?
2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Breaking down complex technologies into simple sentences and attempting to answer "why" these technologies will "now" be used in production.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Nix – Containers Without Containers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. alex__mackenzie · 2022-11-05

    Submitted Nix Primer as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  2. ghuntley · 2022-11-04

    Submitted Nix – Containers Without Containers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. ivan_burazin · 2024-09-23

    Submitted Cursor – Beyond the Hype as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. pseudotrash · 2023-06-14

    Submitted Zig efficient and portable as C, without the footguns as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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