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Brady Gaster

Personal blog · bradygaster.com/postsprogrammingweb

Brady Gaster's personal blog at bradygaster.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Introducing downr”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as an Azure counterpart to a DigitalOcean deploy button shared on HN. The post covers a deploy-to-Azure button for open source apps.

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.

Brady Gaster: software engineer, writer, and speaker on .NET, cloud, and developer tools.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Introducing downr
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. same button for azure: http://www.bradygaster.com/post/the-deploy-to-azure-button

    Comment linking /post/the-deploy-to-azure-button

    on “Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps”
  2. Submitted Introducing downr as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Downr, a simple Markdown blogging engine as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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