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Debu.gs
Personal blog · debu.gs/entries · on HN as 1337p337systemsprogramming
Debu.gs is a personal blog at debu.gs about systems and programming. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The Inferno Shell, an Introduction with Examples”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pete Elmore's blog for its posts on the Inferno operating system, including its shell and building a cluster, and on making music with code such as Bytebeat.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Inferno Shell, an Introduction with Examples3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-05-19
- Distributed Computing Using Inferno3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-20
What Hacker News says?
The Universe of Discourse by Mark Dominus: https://blog.plover.com Kartik Agaram: http://akkartik.name compudanzas: https://compudanzas.net/ Pete Elmore: http://debu.gs Joey Hess: http://joeyh.name
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Inferno, Part 3: Let's Make a Filesystem as a story · 99 points
HN discussionPete Elmore also recently wrote an interesting post about Bytebeat and Algorithmic Composition: http://debu.gs/entries/making-music-with-computers-two-uncon...
Comment linking /entries/making-music-with-computers-two-unconventional-approaches
on “How to create minimal music with code in any programming language”Submitted The Inferno Shell, an Introduction with Examples as a story · 61 points
HN discussionNice to see Inferno posted! Some Inferno related stuff: - Limbo by Example: https://github.com/henesy/limbobyexample - The Inferno Shell: http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-1-shell - Try Inferno in the browser: http://tryinferno.rekka.io/ - Cat-v Inferno resources: http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno - Experiments in Inferno/Limbo: https://github.com/caerwynj/inferno-lab/ - Inferno Programming with Limbo: https://web.arch…
Comment linking /entries/inferno-part-1-shell
on “Inferno Operating System”Submitted Using Inferno at Work as a story · 34 points
HN discussionAt the speed Linux changes, a 5-year-old Inferno would not even build. The lates available tarball is from 2010, but the reason a tarball is even provided is because it speeds up a pull from Mercurial. If you are interested in the current goings on, I've summarized some of them: http://debu.gs/entries/plan-9-and-inferno
Comment linking /entries/plan-9-and-inferno
on “Perl/Linux, a Linux distribution where all programs are written in Perl”Submitted _why oh _why as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSee also the Inferno shell: http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-1-shell I've been playing around with the werc framework, 9base, plan9port and other Plan 9-derived tooling and have found rc shell to be rather pleasant compared to Bourne and Korn dialects.
Comment linking /entries/inferno-part-1-shell
on “Bash Pitfalls”Submitted Try out the Inferno OS without installing it as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTwo great blogs about actually using and improving Inferno (the relevant posts are 5-10 years old, though): Inferno programmer's notebook by Caerwyn Jones: lots of experiments with detailed descriptions and code. The entire blog is really thoughtful actually: https://web.archive.org/web/20200519122543/http://ipn.caerwy... The author also provided Acme-SAC, stripping Inferno to a barebones VM that only runs the Acme…
Comment linking /tags/inferno
on “Inferno: A small operating system for building crossplatform distributed systems”Submitted Distributed Computing Using Inferno as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHere's an example of distributing machine resources across different networks and devices [1] using inferno. An example of distributing computation is at [2]. [1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2012/11/07/sharing-computer-and-pho... [2] http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-2-let-s-make-a-cluster
Comment linking /entries/inferno-part-2-let-s-make-a-cluster
on “Inferno OS”Submitted Debu.gs: Try Inferno Without Installing It as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- cf · 2012-06-26
Submitted Inferno Part 2: Let's Make a Cluster as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Inferno Part 2: Let's Make a Cluster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inferno Part 0: Namespaces as a story · 1 points
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