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Chris Jean

Personal blog · chrisjean.comprogrammingsystems

Chris Jean's personal blog at chrisjean.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
9HN people?
2010–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts as bare references: one on adding git submodules for Vim plugin management with Vundle, and one on an email subject-line quirk. No commenter judges the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-17
  2. Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-11
  3. Mystery of the Email J Finally Solved
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. mattyb · 2011-05-11
    http://chrisjean.com/2009/04/20/git-submodules-adding-using-...

    Comment linking /2009/04/20/git-submodules-adding-using-removing-and-updating/

    on “Sane Vim Plugin Management with Vundle”
  2. tigerlily · 2021-02-17

    Submitted Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (2009) as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  3. quink · 2013-12-03
    http://chrisjean.com/2009/02/06/mystery-of-the-email-j-final... Pisses me off to no end that even my Outlook 2010 can't get that right in the subject heading preview.

    Comment linking /2009/02/06/mystery-of-the-email-j-finally-solved/

    on “☃”
  4. BRadmin · 2011-01-28

    Submitted Mystery of the Email J Finally Solved as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  5. p4bl0 · 2011-05-24

    Submitted Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. telekid · 2020-07-07

    Submitted Multitasking from the Linux Command Line and Process Prioritization as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Alupis · 2023-01-30

    Submitted Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. rijncur · 2014-10-23

    Submitted Mystery of the Email “J” Finally Solved as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. iuguy · 2010-12-05

    Submitted Multitasking from the Linux Command Line + Process Prioritization as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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