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christine.website
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christine.website is a personal blog at christine.website about programming and systems. Since 2015, 120 different Hacker News readers have linked it 234 times, most often “V Is for Vaporware”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link christine.website for its NixOS and Nix workflow posts, its critiques of the V language and its write-ups on security and Freenode. Commenters call it very pleasant to read.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Pleasant to read; a Nix/Go setup post that impressed one commenter; a nice V series; a good NixOS hardening post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- V Is for Vaporware7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-06-23
- V Is for Vvork in Progress7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-01-04
- V Update – June 20207 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-06-17
- /blog/series/v5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-09-15
- The Cult of Kubernetes5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-09-07
- Tarot for Hackers4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-07-25
- I Put Words on This Webpage So You Have to Listen to Me Now4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-12-01
- How I Start: Nix4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-03-08
- How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-10
- Wasmcloud Progress: Rewritten in Rust4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-31
What Hacker News says?
I tried to do it right: https://christine.website/blog The only javascript on any page is for the service worker that allows offline loading of pages.
Comment linking /blog
on “Medium is a poor choice for blogging”Submitted Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic as a story · 528 points
HN discussionhttps://christine.website/blog The NixOS infrastructure is awesome, and of course the whole blog is open sourced and served from the nix store.
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted I was part of a human subject research study without my consent as a story · 434 points
HN discussionhttps://christine.website
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The Cult of Kubernetes as a story · 418 points
HN discussionAs far as I know this is all still so new that such a thing doesn't really exist yet. I think the closest that there is to that is probably my post on implementing /dev/printerfact: https://christine.website/blog/dev-printerfact-2021-04-17
Comment linking /blog/dev-printerfact-2021-04-17
on “Linux Rust Support”Submitted Systemd: The Good Parts as a story · 364 points
HN discussionI was inspired to write my thoughts about this: https://christine.website/blog/epilogue-2021-05-26
Comment linking /blog/epilogue-2021-05-26
on “Freenode ops take control of 700 channels”Submitted I Miss Heroku's DevEx as a story · 310 points
HN discussionHere is my writeup: https://christine.website/blog/princeton-study-2021-12-17
Comment linking /blog/princeton-study-2021-12-17
on “CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University”Submitted “Open source” is broken as a story · 292 points
HN discussion> Websites are businesses. Websites are one or more servers that respond to the HTTP and/or HTTPS protocols with something a web browser can show. They may have a business involved. They do not necessarily have one involved. They may simply be a goofy joke, such as https://zombo.com or http://www.abevigoda.com . They may be a personal site, such as, well, https://christine.website . Which is a blog and a list of pro…
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on “I was part of a human subject research study without my consent”Submitted My NixOS Desktop Flow as a story · 280 points
HN discussionI think the originally-posted site has the answer for you [1] ;) Of course, it's slightly out of date and you need daaal and temple8 in 2019. [1] https://christine.website/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-3...
Comment linking /blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30
on “The Cult of Kubernetes”Submitted The Surreal Horror of Pam as a story · 278 points
HN discussionHaven't started reading yet, but I'm really digging this trend of syntax-highlighted bare text blogs[0]. Is this a template or is it hand-crafted? [0]: https://christine.website/blog/h-language-2019-06-30
Comment linking /blog/h-language-2019-06-30
on “Let's Build a Compiler”Submitted I Was Wrong about Nix as a story · 278 points
HN discussionSelf-promotion: https://christine.website powered by https://github.com/Xe/site
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on “Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?”Submitted How to Use User Mode Linux as a story · 269 points
HN discussionYes you absolutely can just install nix[1] it should work on any Linux, I used it in OS X myself and some things are slightly less smooth than Linux, but it still works well. I also highly suggest to start with Nix Pills[2] it goes so by step how to create derivations and conventions in nixpkgs. Once you get familiar, you can see how you can make a reproducible dev environment, the author has a blog how to do it for…
Comment linking /blog/how-i-start-nix-2020-03-08
on “My NixOS Desktop Flow”Submitted Why I Use Suckless Tools as a story · 238 points
HN discussionThis article is interesting, but not for anything having to do with CSS: 1. Start with a given approach, but say you feel something "off" because it doesn't quite fit "best practice xyz". 2. Use another approach, which also doesn't fit "best practice xyz". 3. Argue that the best practice shouldn't be a best practice. This of course, should mean that the very first approach is just as alright as the second, yet here…
Comment linking /blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30
on “CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)”Submitted Using Paper for Everyday Tasks as a story · 208 points
HN discussionKafkaesque? Yes. https://christine.website/blog/final-chapter-2021-05-20 https://christine.website/blog/epilogue-2021-05-26
Comment linking /blog/epilogue-2021-05-26
on “Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network”Submitted How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect as a story · 188 points
HN discussionA Dockerfile is not a reproducible set of build instructions in most cases. I'd guess that the vast majority of Dockerfiles are not reproducible. Let's look at an example dockerfile for redis (based on [0]) FROM debian:buster-slim RUN apt-get update; apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gcc RUN wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-6.0.6.tar.gz && tar xvf redis* && cd redis-6.0.6 && make install (Note,…
Comment linking /blog/i-was-wrong-about-nix-2020-02-10
on “Docker update ToS: Image retention limits imposed on free accounts”Submitted How I Start: Rust as a story · 184 points
HN discussion> goto language As in ‘considered harmful’? I’m staying away from any language with vulnerabilities like these: https://christine.website/blog/OVE-20190623-0001
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on “V (Vlang) 0.2”Submitted Crimes with Go Generics as a story · 172 points
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