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Carl Chenet
Personal blog · carlchenet.comprogrammingproductivity
Carl Chenet's personal blog at carlchenet.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “2k+ Users Mastodon Instance Shutdown Shows the Need for Choosing the Good One”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Carl Chenet's blog for a post on getting RSS feeds into Mastodon with Feed2toot, a Visual Studio Code article, and the original French article on GitHub. Comments are mostly links with little judgement of the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- 2k+ Users Mastodon Instance Shutdown Shows the Need for Choosing the Good One2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-08-28
- The GitHub Threat2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-19
- You Should Not Ignore the Mastodon Social Network Any More2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-04
- You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open Source? Think Again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-18
- Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-17
- The Slack Threat2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-11
- How I made 10% of my side project’s incomes with a bot written in 4 hours2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-10
What Hacker News says?
Some years ago I wrote "The Github Threat" https://carlchenet.com/the-github-threat/ and I'll be delighted to update the conclusion with this quite predictable and logical outcome.
Comment linking /the-github-threat/
on “Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub”Submitted Switching from Mailchimp to open-source Mailtrain and AWS SES as a story · 178 points
HN discussionI wrote "The Github Threat" about this possible issue https://carlchenet.com/the-github-threat/
Comment linking /the-github-threat/
on “Many packages suddenly disappeared”Submitted You Think the Visual Studio Code Binary You Use Is Open Source? Think Again as a story · 113 points
HN discussionYou could use this time to read The Slack threat https://carlchenet.com/the-slack-threat/
Comment linking /the-slack-threat/
on “Slack is offline”Submitted How I made 10% of my side project’s incomes with a bot written in 4 hours as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThe social network Mastodon, also based on a Free Software and using Fediverse, reached 2M+ uses recently https://carlchenet.com/do-not-ignore-the-mastodon-social-net... PixelFed has a possible awesome future ahead!
Comment linking /do-not-ignore-the-mastodon-social-network/
on “Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms”Submitted How My Side Project Increased Revenues by 100% in 2018 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTurns out Mastodon has RSS/Atom. "Your feed URL is [instance]/users/[username].rss or .atom" [0] NOTE may vary from instance to instance. E.G. "social.tchncs.de/@[useralias].rss And (haven't tried it) an RSS-TO-Mastodon method: [1] using 'Feed2toot' [0] https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/100523448408374430 [1] https://carlchenet.com/get-your-rss-feeds-to-mastodon-with-t...
Comment linking /get-your-rss-feeds-to-mastodon-with-the-feed2toot-bot/
on “Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web”Submitted You Should Not Ignore the Mastodon Social Network Any More as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe wanna be Mastodon users could use reading my blog post The Importance of Choosing the Correct Mastodon Instance https://carlchenet.com/the-importance-of-choosing-the-correc... There are some ideological and technical points to consider before choosing your instance.
Comment linking /the-importance-of-choosing-the-correct-mastodon-instance/
on “Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter”Submitted 2k+ Users Mastodon Instance Shutdown Shows the Need for Choosing the Good One as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThanks for the notice for the link. Sadly I can't edit anymore... Here is the good one: https://carlchenet.com/you-think-the-visual-studio-code-bina...
Comment linking /you-think-the-visual-studio-code-binary-you-use-is-a-free-software-think-again/
on “The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE”Submitted The Slack Threat as a story · 6 points
HN discussionOriginal French Article: http://carlchenet.com/
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on “The Danger GitHub”Submitted You Should Not Ignore the Mastodon Social Network Any More as a story · 5 points
HN discussionfsniper: Thanks for your remarks. They are really much appreciated. Below are some answers I hope can help: Extensive list of supported features: http://brebisproject.org/projects/brebis/wiki/Extensive_list... How does Brebis work: Brebis in the first run creates a list of files inside the archives with parameters about these files. In the second run, Brebis verifies the files thanks to the list of files it previous…
Comment linking /2013/10/17/brebis-0-7-the-fully-automated-backup-checker/
on “Brebis, the fully automated backup checker”Submitted How I Switched Working from Office Full Time to Remote 3 Days a Week as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance of Choosing the Correct Mastodon Instance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remind people about your great content using social networks with Remindr as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feed2toot 0.6, the RSS to Mastodon bot, released as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gitlab database incident and the Backup Checker project as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Verify your backups… or lose them all as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Send the same short message on Twitter, Pump.io, Diaspora and a lot more as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You won’t get rich fast with entrepreneurship as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSS: passive consumerism kills our community as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Nginx Unit 1.0 with Your Django Project on Debian Stretch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The GitHub Threat as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance of Choosing the Correct Mastodon Instance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retweet 0.9: Automatically retweet and like as a story · 3 points
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