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bd808.com is a personal blog at bd808.com about programming and systems. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Hacking the GitHub Contributions Calendar”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link his technical posts, including one on installing PHP's YAML extension via PECL and one on hacking GitHub contribution graphs. The comments only cite these posts as references.

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.

bd808.com FOSS in, FOSS out: software, process and operations As a Software Architect/Developer I want to share my accumulated experience So that I can repay the FOSS community that made my career possible. My professional career and the Internet in general are possible because of free and open-sour

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hacking the GitHub Contributions Calendar
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. does not seem so... Something as simple as "yaml" already requires reaching to apt-get: http://bd808.com/pecl-file_formats-yaml/ > Php-yaml can be installed using PHP's PECL package manager. This extension requires the LibYAML C library version 0.1.0 or higher to be installed. $ sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev This is basically how "pip" works, and while it's fine for basic stuff, it gets pretty bad if you want to…

    Comment linking /pecl-file_formats-yaml/

    on “Conda: A package management disaster?”
  2. Submitted Hacking the GitHub Contributions Calendar as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Another pretty good one: https://github.com/will Via http://bd808.com/blog/2013/04/17/hacking-github-contribution...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/04/17/hacking-github-contributions-graph/

    on “The proper way to contribute on Github”

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