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Code happens is a personal blog at rbtcollins.wordpress.com about programming, systems and data. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Monads and Python”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Monads and Python
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-27
  2. Minimising downtime for schema changes with PostgreSQL
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-13

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  1. Submitted A moment of [Ubuntu and bzr] history as a story · 3 points

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  2. Submitted Minimising Downtime for Schema Changes with Postgresql as a story · 3 points

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  3. Submitted Minimising downtime for schema changes with PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Monads and Python as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted Monads and Python as a story · 1 points

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  6. Submitted Monads and Python as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted Learning is Hard as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted Why platform specific package systems exist and won’t go away as a story · 1 points

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