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Campbell Vertesi
Personal blog · ohthehugemanatee.org/blogprogrammingcareer
Campbell Vertesi writes Oh The Huge Manatee!, a personal blog at ohthehugemanatee.org about programming and career. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts as practical fixes and commentary: steps to restore a Homebrew environment after the El Capitan upgrade, an open letter on Wired's ad-blocking policy, and tips on Btrfs free space and snapshot usage.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts and technical notes from the field. I'm Campbell Vertesi, Global Partner Strategy ISV CTO for Red Hat at Microsoft, opera singer, and parent. These are the things that go through my mind.
What Hacker News says?
In case it's helpful, I blogged the steps I had to take to get my environment back up and running: https://ohthehugemanatee.org/blog/2015/10/01/how-i-got-el-ca...
Comment linking /blog/2015/10/01/how-i-got-el-capitain-working-with-my-developer-tools/
on “El Capitan and Homebrew”Submitted Open letter to Wired Magazine: keep your market instead of shutting them out as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis was important enough to me that I put it into a blog post: https://ohthehugemanatee.org/blog/2016/02/09/an-open-letter-...
Comment linking /blog/2016/02/09/an-open-letter-to-wired-magazine/
on “How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking”Submitted I'm Joining Microsoft, Because They're Doing Open Source Right as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFree space and the space taken up by metadata and snapshots can take a little attention to figure out https://ohthehugemanatee.org/blog/2019/02/11/btrfs-out-of-sp...
Comment linking /blog/2019/02/11/btrfs-out-of-space-emergency-response/
on “Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33”