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Personal blog · birkey.coprogrammingwriting

BirkeyCo is a personal blog at birkey.co about programming and writing. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “GitHub's Recent Crisis Has a Simple Fix: Intelligent Backoff Queues”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
5HN people?
2018–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2026

Most-linked posts?

  1. GitHub's Recent Crisis Has a Simple Fix: Intelligent Backoff Queues
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. birkey · 2026-08-18
    Change is inevitable. Users will demand features and then you need to keep supporting them. I think GitHub's recent issues is https://www.birkey.co/2026-08-17-githubs-recent-crisis-has-a... more of a symptom of current AI slop than thier eng culture or structure. I put some of my thoughts here:

    Comment linking /2026-08-17-githubs-recent-crisis-has-a-simple-fix.html

    on “Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance”
  2. birkey · 2026-03-22

    Submitted Why I love NixOS as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  3. birkey · 2026-08-17
    my reflection: https://www.birkey.co/2026-08-17-githubs-recent-crisis-has-a...

    Comment linking /2026-08-17-githubs-recent-crisis-has-a-simple-fix.html

    on “Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance”
  4. birkey · 2022-02-07

    Submitted Bash script to automate public WiFi anonymous login as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. birkey · 2025-04-22

    Submitted Nix: Better Way for Fun and Profit as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. BirkeyCo · 2019-02-02

    Submitted Thoughts on Elixir Community by a Clojure Developer as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. birkey · 2021-07-19

    Submitted Best terminal – Why Eshell? series as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. birkey · 2023-03-06

    Submitted Tools to make atomic commits easy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. BirkeyCo · 2018-10-27

    Submitted Datafy and tap in Clojure 1.10 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. BirkeyCo · 2018-10-20

    Submitted VoidLinux – No love lost after one year as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. msolli · 2026-08-17

    Submitted GitHub's Recent Crisis Has a Simple Fix: Intelligent Backoff Queues as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. signa11 · 2026-04-07

    Submitted Oneness Is All You Need as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. signa11 · 2026-03-30

    Submitted Emacs as a Programmable Workbench as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. simonpure · 2021-04-28

    Submitted Easy To Change – The principle to guide engineering as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. BirkeyCo · 2018-10-04

    Submitted Visualize Google Search Results from Clojure REPL as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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