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Dan Aloni
Personal blog · blog.aloni.orgprogrammingsystems
Dan Aloni's personal blog at blog.aloni.org covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “How to Easily Patch Fedora Packages”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links one post as an example of how to patch a Fedora package, cited to argue that newcomer-friendly docs matter more than a new package manager.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Easily Patch Fedora Packages3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
- A stack-less Rust coroutine library under 100 LoC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-25
What Hacker News says?
This pattern of usage always seems like abuse. When `make` is used as a glorified front-end to `bash` scriptlets, why not use `bash` directly instead of having two-level of scripting? See: https://blog.aloni.org/posts/bash-functional-command-relay/
Comment linking /posts/bash-functional-command-relay/
on “How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles”Submitted Proper use of Git tags as a story · 256 points
HN discussion> Maybe he needs to come up with a better package manager and make a distro. My guess is that all you need are docs more friendly to newcomers. See for example how would one do something like that with fedora: https://blog.aloni.org/posts/how-to-easily-patch-fedora-pack...
Comment linking /posts/how-to-easily-patch-fedora-packages/
on “Package Managers Hurt Open Source”Submitted Show HN: Git-Retext as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SQLite SET-AND Gotcha as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Easily Patch Fedora Packages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting Tests in a Separate Git Repo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted - Path Trimming in Nightly Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A stack-less Rust coroutine library under 100 LoC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A stack-less Rust coroutine library under 100 LoC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Easily Patch Fedora Packages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Easily Patch Fedora Packages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Endgames for Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Git-Flip-History as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Path Trimming in Nightly Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with mailing lists under GMail as a story · 1 points
HN discussion