Top all-time · #7124
Dan McGee
Personal blog · toofishes.net/blogprogrammingsystems
Dan McGee's personal blog at toofishes.net covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The real story behind Arch Linux package signing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan McGee's blog for his LaTeX resume template and follow-up, and for his write-up on Arch Linux package signing from the pacman developer's view. An older MySQL deadlock post is also cited.
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.
The personal blog of Dan McGee
Most-linked posts?
- The real story behind Arch Linux package signing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-25
What Hacker News says?
i've looked at most, if not all, of the CVs & templates referred to on this page, but must say i like my TEX resume better. :) https://github.com/cies/resume i like typesetting, so naturally did my best. it uses the pagella font that is often used for books (with 'low case numbers' -- i love those). except the h-lines and some bullets everything is made of text. uses hyper-refs where applicable, in dark blue so 'pri…
Comment linking /blog/tags/latex
on “A resume template in TeX”Submitted Why I do my resume in LaTeX as a story · 143 points
HN discussionHere is a good post about Arch package signing from the lead pacman dev http://www.toofishes.net/blog/real-story-behind-arch-linux-p... Also, I believe that "pacman" definitely wins the award for best package manager names.
Comment linking /blog/real-story-behind-arch-linux-package-signing/
on “Welcome to Linux From Scratch”Submitted The real story behind Arch Linux package signing as a story · 67 points
HN discussionLooks like the example of a good one is based on Dan McGee's latex document: https://www.toofishes.net/blog/latex-resume-follow-up/
Comment linking /blog/latex-resume-follow-up/
on “Show HN: Leet Resumes – a free technical resume-writing service”Submitted Arch Linux Packages Visualization as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSpreading writes to all servers: yes. Conflicting updates: no; this problem happens when doing simple inserts. See http://www.toofishes.net/blog/mysql-deadlocking-simple-inser... -- that's an old blog post but this still happens with a reasonably late mysql and mariadb. I have no reason to believe that it's not a fundamental design failure. It's of course not a Galera issue per se, but rather a more serious InnoDB i…
Comment linking /blog/mysql-deadlocking-simple-inserts/
on “Bucardo 5, async replication for PostgreSQL with true multi-master”Submitted Music metadata visualization in Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHe posted a follow up with a LaTeX resume template here: http://www.toofishes.net/blog/latex-resume-follow-up/ I must confess that I don't understand it well but it has inspired me to actually try LaTeX for the first time. (EDIT - fixed dumb typo. Thanks, RiderOfGiraffes)
Comment linking /blog/latex-resume-follow-up/
on “Why I do my resume in LaTeX”Submitted Git smart HTTP transport on Nginx (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three-way merging for git using vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussion