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Brendan Ashworth
Personal blog · blog.ashworth.indataprogramming
Brendan Ashworth writes Normalizing Constant, a personal blog at blog.ashworth.in about data and programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts about clib, a proposed centralized package manager and collaboration place for C open source code. The only comment disputes its premise, noting that GLib and APR already exist.
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.
Data-driven understanding
What Hacker News says?
[ http://blog.ashworth.in/2014/10/19/the-advent-of-clib-the-c-... ]: > "Finally: a place where C programmers can get together and collaborate on open source, then distribute their code - in a centralized, easy way." That place already exists. In fact, at least two such places exist: GLib and APR. Also, this is not how C development workflow works.
Comment linking /2014/10/19/the-advent-of-clib-the-c-package-manager.html
on “Best Package Manager for C”Submitted OpenSSL vulnerability: how to update on Ubuntu 14.04 as a story · 4 points
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HN discussion