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Cash App Code Blog
Company blog · cashapp.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Cash App Code Blog is the company blog at cashapp.github.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2019, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Hermit: A Hermetic Package Manager for Software Projects”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Cash App Code Blog's project pages for Hermit, a per-project tool version manager, and SQLDelight. Commenters point to them as references when comparing tools like asdf and mise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hermit: A Hermetic Package Manager for Software Projects6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24
- App-Layer Encryption in AWS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-04
What Hacker News says?
I recently discovered Hermit[1], which is a really straightforward tool for managing versions of tools for a given project. From the FAQ[2]: > Hermit is probably most similar to asdf, but their goals differ. Hermit's goal is to make isolated cross-platform tooling consistent, self-bootstrapping, and reproducible at the project level. asdf's primary goal is to allow developers to install and switch between multiple v…
Comment linking /hermit/faq/
on “Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf”Submitted Hermit: A Hermetic Package Manager for Software Projects as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSQLDelight had neat built in support for this https://cashapp.github.io/sqldelight/
Comment linking /sqldelight/
on “We're moving on from Firebase”Submitted Tuning Elasticsearch Index Settings for Logs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://cashapp.github.io/hermit/faq/#how-is-hermit-differen...
Comment linking /hermit/faq/
on “Asdf Performance”Submitted App-Layer Encryption in AWS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou might also want to check out hermit: https://cashapp.github.io/hermit/ Definitely not as many definitions as asdf, but what it does, it does well.
Comment linking /hermit/
on “Asdf Performance”Submitted Hermit: Manage isolated, self-bootstrapping sets of tools in software projects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnyone know offhand how this compares to Hermit? https://cashapp.github.io/hermit/
Comment linking /hermit/
on “Mise: a polyglot tool version manager”Submitted Hermit: Open-source toolchain management by Cash App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSounds a bit like Hermit [0] [0] https://cashapp.github.io/hermit/
Comment linking /hermit/
on “DotSlash: Simplified Executable Deployment”Submitted Hermit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted App-Layer Encryption in AWS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cashapp/tempest – a type safe DynamoDB API for Kotlin and Java as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
