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Big Dan the Blogging Man
Personal blog · bigdanzblog.wordpress.comhardwareprogramming
Big Dan the Blogging Man is a personal blog at bigdanzblog.wordpress.com about hardware and programming. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Using Mass Storage Devices on Simh PDP-11/RT-11: Paper Tape, Diskette, Dectape”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts about running blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi. The one comment quotes the post's account of SD card failures across several Pis and says it sounds about right.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Mass Storage Devices on Simh PDP-11/RT-11: Paper Tape, Diskette, Dectape2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-22
- COBOL and $2,020,202.022 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-04
- Building the PiDP-11 Dec PDP-11 Replica Minicomputer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-23
- Entering and Running a Tiny Program from the PDP-11 (PiDP-11) Front Panel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-28
What Hacker News says?
> Across three RPis, I've bought about seven SD cards, and from everything RPi users tell me, that's a totally normal failure rate. Sounds about right. I went through maybe 4-6 cards on 2 Raspberry Pis in a year and a half. > I'd love someone knowledgeable to explain why this happens. According to general opinion on the RPi forums, it's because SD card manufacturers cheap out all the time SD cards are basically uniq…
Comment linking /2015/01/27/raspberry-pi-fails-to-boot-red-light-only-due-to-warped-sd-card/
on “Blobless Linux on Raspberry Pi”Submitted Building the PiDP-11 Dec PDP-11 Replica Minicomputer as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted COBOL and $2,020,202.02 as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electronics Test Gear on the Cheap as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too Many Fonts in Windows 10 Can Cause Slow Application Starts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Classic HP 16C Programmer's Calculator (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Mass Storage Devices on Simh PDP-11/RT-11: Paper Tape, Diskette, Dectape as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Mass Storage Devices on Simh PDP-11/RT-11: Paper Tape, Diskette, Dectape as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the PiDP-11 Dec PDP-11 Replica Minicomputer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reading PMS5003 Air Quality Sensors with Windows and Free Pascal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted COBOL and $2,020,202.02 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedded SQL for GnuCOBOL using ocesql as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Soldering a Micro USB Socket to a PCB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entering and Running a Tiny Program from the PDP-11 (PiDP-11) Front Panel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entering and Running a Tiny Program from the PDP-11 (PiDP-11) Front Panel as a story · 1 points
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