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Andrew Gwozdziewycz
Personal blog · sigusr2.net · on HN as apgwozprogrammingcareer
Andrew Gwozdziewycz's personal blog at sigusr2.net covers programming and career. Since 2009, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “The Hacker's Utility Belt: SSH”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on serving traffic directly from SQLite and a one-line Python echo server. One commenter called the 'pyramid of code quality' article insubstantial.
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?
- The Hacker's Utility Belt: SSH2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-05-07
- A “One” Line Echo Server Using “let” in Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-13
- Serving Traffic “Directly” from SQLite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
- Gamification of Programming Languages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-15
- The Case of the Unusable Reusable2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-22
What Hacker News says?
Have you seen http://sigusr2.net/serving-traffic-directly-from-sqlite.html ?
Comment linking /serving-traffic-directly-from-sqlite.html
on “Serverless SQLite”Submitted Be Moore Like Chuck as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI implemented Conway's Game of Life in AppScript once: http://sigusr2.net/2010/Jun/25/google-spreadsheets-game-of-l...
Comment linking /2010/Jun/25/google-spreadsheets-game-of-life.html
on “Google's Code Editor”Submitted The Power That is GNU Emacs as a story · 64 points
HN discussionYou can hack together multiple expressions chaining them with and http://sigusr2.net/one-line-echo-server-using-let-python.htm...
Comment linking /one-line-echo-server-using-let-python.html
on “Coconut – Pythonic functional programming language”Submitted Higher Order PHP as a story · 64 points
HN discussionMy blog http://sigusr2.net has it now.
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on “Protest SOPA with stopcensorship.js”Submitted This is not the Freehackers Union... as a story · 62 points
HN discussionAnd here I am doing this as a joke ( https://sigusr2.net/serving-traffic-directly-from-sqlite.htm... )…
Comment linking /serving-traffic-directly-from-sqlite.html
on “Derek Sivers's database and web apps”Submitted Clojure Conj Reading List as a story · 40 points
HN discussionFor my latest side project, I've been taking lots of this stuff into account based on the original Pycon talk. The separate reusable app idea is the strongest point, something that was just starting to come into convention when I put down Django the first time. However, a lot of the reusable apps leave something to be desired. I started to leave a comment on that here, but spun off a blog post instead: http://sigusr…
Comment linking /2009/Jul/22/case-of-the-unusable-reusable.html
on “Django in the real world.”Submitted Python Worlds as a story · 35 points
HN discussionA while back I used a similar technique to build out a "sinatra"-esque way to declare handlers in python http://sigusr2.net/2009/Mar/04/dispatching-with-with.html
Comment linking /2009/Mar/04/dispatching-with-with.html
on “Multi-Line Lambdas in Python Using the With Statement”Submitted The Hacker's Utility Belt: SSH as a story · 21 points
HN discussionhttps://sigusr2.net/lemons.html
Comment linking /lemons.html
on “Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again”Submitted Google Spreadsheets: Game of Life as a story · 20 points
HN discussionWell, this is an article about programming, not a program, and it's pretty insubstantial. All it really does is mention some buzzwords and and note that they're the foundation of the "pyramid of code quality". Nothing personal against the author, but it's pretty flat for something that's stayed on the front page through evening. I wonder why it's getting voted up. This article on ssh ( http://sigusr2.net/2009/May/07…
Comment linking /2009/May/07/hacker-utility-belt-ssh.html
on “The pyramid of code quality, the 5 characteristics of good code.”Submitted Ant.el: A Code Walkthrough as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parser Combinators Made Simple as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Real Disappointment as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case of the Unusable Django Reusable as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps are Broken, for Some Definition of Broken as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dispatching With "with" as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unipoint-mode: A minor-mode for Mathematical Unicode as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pattern Matching with "With" as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted A “One” Line Echo Server Using “let” in Python as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted SIGUSR2: Scanabanana as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Meta-Circular” Static Types as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Applying the Web of Trust Model to Blog Reading as a story · 3 points
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