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Andi Albrecht

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Andi Albrecht's personal blog at andialbrecht.wordpress.com covers programming. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “How Do You Look When Merging Fails”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.

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8HN people?
2010–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Andi Albrecht's 2009 post about photographing himself after failed Mercurial merges, cited as an earlier precedent for later commit-photo hacks. One comment points to his open-source projects.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

My personal blog, mostly about Python & Programming

Most-linked posts?

  1. How Do You Look When Merging Fails
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-01-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. ErrantX · 2010-01-08
    This guys projects are worth checking out too.[1] If it does everything claimed (not tried it out yet) Crunchy Frog [2] looks prettyy useful. 1. http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/projects/ 2. http://code.google.com/p/crunchyfrog/

    Comment linking /projects/

    on “How Do You Look When Merging Fails”
  2. aristoxenus · 2010-01-08

    Submitted How Do You Look When Merging Fails as a story · 269 points

    HN discussion
  3. scott_s · 2014-03-19
    The flip side to snapping a picture when merges fail: http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fa... and HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1039984

    Comment linking /2009/05/09/when-merging-fails/

    on “GitHub Selfies”
  4. agscala · 2012-01-26

    Submitted How Do You Look When Merging Fails ;-) as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. praptak · 2012-06-23
    A similar article from 2009: a guy takes photo of his face on every failed merge. http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fa...

    Comment linking /2009/05/09/when-merging-fails/

    on “Cool hack to take a photo of yourself on every commit”
  6. BobPalmer · 2011-11-23

    Submitted How do you look when merging fails... as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. cstuder · 2013-08-12
    A similar project: Take a picture when a merge fails: http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fa...

    Comment linking /2009/05/09/when-merging-fails/

    on “Git blame has never been so much fun”
  8. callahad · 2010-03-24
    Reminds me of Andi Albrecht's mercurial hook [0] which posts a photo from your webcam to Twitter whenever a merge fails. [0]: http://andialbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/when-merging-fa...

    Comment linking /2009/05/09/when-merging-fails/

    on “Auto Smiley Generator”

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