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Christian Hammond
Personal blog · blog.chipx86.comprogrammingweb
Christian Hammond writes ChipLog, a personal blog at blog.chipx86.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on the 2016 VMware Workstation team being let go, a 2005 post on tagging and extended attributes in GNOME, and a Review Board approach to Django settings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Development, data, design, debugging
Most-linked posts?
- A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-26
- /2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-workstation-fusion-and-hosted-ui/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-13
What Hacker News says?
http://blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-works...
Comment linking /2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-workstation-fusion-and-hosted-ui/
on “Apple’s declining software quality”Submitted Virtual Machines in Your Browser as a story · 127 points
HN discussionlinux has xattr too. so technically, our filesystems already support tags. that means it is now up to the other tools to catch up and make use of them. here is a discussion about tags and extended attributes in gnome. https://blog.chipx86.com/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-de... it is from 2005, so not really current, but the arguments are interesting. in short: filesystem attributes are systemwide (but you and i…
Comment linking /2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/
on “The time has come to replace file systems”Submitted A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI as a story · 124 points
HN discussionThe team was replaced That's a weird turn of phrase. Are they still working there or not? https://blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-work... http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/vmware...
Comment linking /2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-workstation-fusion-and-hosted-ui/
on “Virtual Box 5.1”Submitted A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI as a story · 51 points
HN discussionAs a shameless plug, here's how we at Review Board have solved this problem: http://blog.chipx86.com/2008/08/05/django-development-with-d...
Comment linking /2008/08/05/django-development-with-djblets-dynamic-site-configuration/
on “Comoga/django-constance - Dynamic Django settings”Submitted Memories from VMware’s Hosted UI as a story · 43 points
HN discussionNot many! They fired the entire hosted-ui team in 2016 (ref: https://blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-work... )
Comment linking /2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-workstation-fusion-and-hosted-ui/
on “When we were first adding Mac OS X guest support at ᴠᴍware”Submitted Peer-Programming a Buggy World with ChatGPT AI as a story · 1 points
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