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Alexey Shpakovsky

Personal blog · alexey.shpakovsky.ru/en · on HN as Lex-2008programmingsystemsculture

Alexey Shpakovsky's personal blog at alexey.shpakovsky.ru covers programming, systems and culture. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

The author on HN?

Lex-2008 · 389 karma · member since 2019

http://alexey.shpakovsky.ru/

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What Hacker News says?

  1. re: backup SQL dumps instead of db files - indeed! In my small experiment (SQL databases in a browser profile, [1]), simple `sqlite3 "$file" .dump | gzip >"$file.sql.gz"` decreased size of files to be backed up about 10 times! I'm not sure how it compares to Borg's delta- and zstd-compression, though. [1]: http://alexey.shpakovsky.ru/en/minimizing-size-of-browser-pr...

    Comment linking /en/minimizing-size-of-browser-profiles-backups.html

    on “Show HN: Versioning Filesystem for SQLite”
  2. Submitted How to add custom keyboard layout on Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. http://alexey.shpakovsky.ru/en/ Write ("leave notes") mostly for myself, but wonder if someone else might find it useful / interesting.

    Comment linking /en/

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  4. Submitted Fixing the Y2K Problem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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