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Bart Busschots

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Bart Busschots's personal blog at bartbusschots.ie covers programming and writing. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2019–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Bart Busschots's posts on setting up the hsxkpasswd password generator and mention his macOS rsync GUI work. The comments don't judge the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. hsxkpasswd[0] can do it with a little configuration[1]. [0]: https://github.com/bbusschots/hsxkpasswd [1]: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2015/09/06/using-the-hsxkpass...

    Comment linking /s/2015/09/06/using-the-hsxkpasswd-terminal-command-part-2-of-2/

    on “Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number”
  2. Submitted HSXKPasswd – A Secure Memorable Password Generator (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. My main Mac can't run Sonoma without OCLP and I'm perfectly happy on Monterey for now, so I will skip. I already have RSyncOSX, which after quite a bit of Googling and digging seems to be an older app by the same author. https://github.com/rsyncOSX/RsyncOSX_archived As opposed to the new: https://github.com/rsyncOSX/RsyncOSX Before that, I used to use ARsync: https://arrsync.sourceforge.net/ https://www.bartbusschot…

    Comment linking /s/2006/11/26/arrsync-an-rsync-gui-for-mac-os-x/

    on “RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync”
  4. Submitted Pondering Apple’s App Store Conundrum (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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