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Brendan O'Leary

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Brendan O'Leary's personal blog at boleary.dev covers programming, security and career. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-17, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
4HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

One commenter links this post as a write-up on responding to GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas. The comment does not comment on the writing itself.

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.

I'm a technologist and speaker. I am also a 1x engineer 👨‍💻 and a 4x dad 👦🏻👧🏼👦🏻👧🏼

What Hacker News says?

  1. I ended up writing this thing out: https://boleary.dev/blog/2021-09-08-responding-to-github-act...

    Comment linking /blog/2021-09-08-responding-to-github-actions-limitations.html

    on “GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas”
  2. Submitted From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How Does Gitlab Stand Up to “GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas”? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Software Supply Chain Security as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Running meetings in read-write mode instead of read-only as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Purse Caper: Debugging can be hard as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Building in the Open, Again as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted What I learned at Gitlab that I don't want to forget as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted What makes a great tech talk? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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