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Carolyn Van Slyck

Personal blog · carolynvanslyck.com/blogprogrammingcareerproductivity

Carolyn Van Slyck's personal blog at carolynvanslyck.com covers programming, career and productivity. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Mage Is My Favorite Make”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
8HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this personal blog for a home networking write-up, including a Kubernetes cluster post themed on My Little Pony. Only one comment discusses it, joking that it is worth reading for that link.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Mage Is My Favorite Make
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-14
  2. My Little Cluster Story
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. x0x0 · 2017-12-03Recommends
    Worth it for the link to Carolyn's my little pony k8s cluster, mastered by Twilight Sparkle. Obvs. http://carolynvanslyck.com/blog/2017/10/my-little-cluster/

    Comment linking /blog/2017/10/my-little-cluster/

    on “Redoing all my home networking”
  2. Submitted Mage Is My Favorite Make as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Interview Brain Dump as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted My Little Cluster Story as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Mage Is My Favorite Make as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Opinions on mage as make replacement for Golang projects as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Mage Is My Favorite Make as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Git wip: What the heck was I just doing? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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