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Chris Short
Personal blog · chrisshort.netsystemsprogramming
Chris Short's personal blog at chrisshort.net covers systems and programming. Since 2016, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “NTP: I Need You to Go Ahead and Love It”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Short's blog for Kubernetes resources, including a curated learning list and an illustrated Kubernetes guide. One commenter questioned an article's framing given the author's short time at Red Hat.
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?
- NTP: I Need You to Go Ahead and Love It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-02
- Things no one tells you when you start a newsletter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-25
- At least it wasn't Oracle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-02
- Being a Veteran in Today's America (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-28
- Docker, Inc is Dead2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-04
What Hacker News says?
This article is really strange. the OP has only been at Red Hat for 4 months [1], and yet he speaks as though he's a Red Hat veteran. [1] https://chrisshort.net/resume-cv/
Comment linking /resume-cv/
on “At least it wasn't Oracle”Submitted At least it wasn't Oracle as a story · 309 points
HN discussionHere are some resources I collected over the time References: https://chrisshort.net/kubernetes-illustrated-childrens-guid... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10NltoF_6y3mBwUzQ4bcQ... (The Kubernetes Learning Resources List) https://github.com/jamiehannaford/what-happens-when-k8s https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes https://github.com/nkuba/k8s-admin-helper https://github.com/ramitsurana/awesome-kubernetes…
Comment linking /kubernetes-illustrated-childrens-guide
on “A curated list for Kubernetes sources”Submitted A Surprise AWS Bill as a story · 240 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker is Dead as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear and Loathing in YAML as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes: Getting Started as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker, Inc is Dead as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things no one tells you when you start a newsletter as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Military Phrases for Use in DevOps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons in Frugality: Why Pay for Linktree? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted KubeCon North America 2019 Trip Report as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My KubeCon and CloudNativeCon NA 2018 Recap as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Military Phrases for Use in DevOps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes: Cron Jobs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted DNS is Awesome as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Does Yahoo's Downfall Teach Us? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Take Ownership; “Plant Your Flag” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things no one tells you when you start a newsletter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2018 Learnings, 2019 Expectations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Fish, Two Fish, Blue Fish Sporting New Red Hat as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Not Ditching Cloudflare as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Military Lessons Applied to DevOps: Operation Eagle Claw as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted NTP: I Need You to Go Ahead and Love It as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lineinfile be damned as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Permanently Remove Any Record of a File from Git as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes README as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life After Devopsish (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being a Veteran in Today's America (2018) as a story · 2 points
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