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Crushed by 1s and 0s
Personal blog · crushedby1sand0s.blogspot.comsystemsprogramming
Crushed by 1s and 0s is a personal blog at crushedby1sand0s.blogspot.com about systems and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover configuration languages and how configuration gets complicated across levels, such as layered files and precedence rules. The one comment here does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This is just the complexity in individual files! Configuration can be a lot more complicated. Look at dockerfiles, which are filesystems overlaid over each other, often sourced from the internet. https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/reference/features/extern... Look at that: a massive 15 deep precedence order for pulling just individual values (oh man, doesn't even touch things like maps/lists that get merged/overridd…
Comment linking /2021/02/stages-of-despair-in-configuration.html
on “Levels of configuration languages”Submitted Stages of Despair in Configuration as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stages of Despair in Configuration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Recurring Tragedy of Orchestration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Recurring Tragedy of Orchestration as a story · 1 points
HN discussion