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Andrew Vos

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Andrew Vos's personal blog at andrewvos.com covers programming. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's 2011 post on profanity in git commit messages per programming language, usually when discussing commit messages, developer mood, or language comparisons. Comments cite it without judging it.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Andrew Vos's personal site

Most-linked posts?

  1. Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-02-22
  2. Profanity in git commit messages per programming language
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. > "there are two types of languages, the ones everyone complains about, and the ones nobody uses" Of course Bjarne would say that. The reality is, there are some languages that people use a lot and don't complain about nearly as much. Some languages are just actually worse to use. http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c...

    Comment linking /2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language

    on “Why Go is my favorite programming language”
  2. Submitted Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language as a story · 285 points

    HN discussion
  3. To make it more interesting, feed the bot 'profanity' list for git commits.. http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c...

    Comment linking /2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language/

    on “Github is Your New Resume”
  4. Submitted Hacker News in the Terminal as a story · 112 points

    HN discussion
  5. I think he's correct in his assumption that it's only really in America that people are offended by swear words on a slide. I'm in Europe and no one I know would blink twice to see that - although I'd defo leave it out in a sales pitch! I personally thought the unnecessary swearing was quite amusing. It's nice to see someone not taking themselves too seriously (for a change). Also reminded me of Ted Dzuiba - anyone…

    Comment linking /2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language/

    on “Profanity Doesn't Work”
  6. Submitted Who are the laziest and hackiest developers? as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c...

    Comment linking /2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language

    on “C++ is a hack”
  8. Submitted Click the Contact link and see what happens as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. I feel like I've seen this recently on HN Eh, cannot find it - I guess we just talk a lot about commit messages. http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=commit+mess... https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+commi... Maybe it was this one, but I swear it was more recent: http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c... http://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-gi...

    Comment linking /2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language/

    on “Epic commit message”
  10. Submitted o.O - A Pretty Printer for Go as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Reminds me of two previous HN submissions: Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language : http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c... Commit Logs From Last Night: http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com

    Comment linking /2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-commit-messages-per-programming-language/

    on “How Angry are your Developers?”
  12. Submitted Profanity in git commit messages per programming language as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Click Contact and see what happens as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Essential VIM Plugins as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Writing async jobs in VIM 8 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Showing a Turtle In Tmux When CPU Usage Is High as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Writing better Cucumber features as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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