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Dimitris Zorbas

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Dimitris Zorbas's personal blog at zorbash.com covers programming. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Debugging and Tracing Elixir applications”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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15mentions?
7HN people?
2016–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on a multi-stage Docker build for Elixir releases using distillery, producing a barebones Alpine image. The comment cites it as a how-to, not as praise.

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?

  1. Debugging and Tracing Elixir applications
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. I have and blogged about it here https://zorbash.com/post/building-command-line-applications-... I'll give bakeware a go and probably update the post with the results.

    Comment linking /post/building-command-line-applications-with-elixir/

    on “Bakeware – Compile Elixir applications into single executable binaries”
  2. Submitted Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope as a story · 157 points

    HN discussion
  3. If it's any help: I use docker multistage to build a barebones alpine docker image. It uses distillery. I based my dockerfile on https://gist.github.com/bsedat/16cb74ebc8ab0ed61ac598a129b0a... Blogpost: https://zorbash.com/post/docker-multi-stage-elixir-distiller... (I'm not the author)

    Comment linking /post/docker-multi-stage-elixir-distillery-releases/

    on “Why Elixir (2014)”
  4. Submitted My year with Elixir as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Knowledge Mapping as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted An Unusual Pomodoro Timer on Elixir and Nerves as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Building a Command-Line Application in Elixir as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Notes from Elixirconf.eu 2019 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Software Packaging Guidelines as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted A Slack Bookmarking Application in Elixir as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Debugging and Tracing Elixir applications as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Communication Patterns in Software as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Deploying Kitto with resin.io as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Effective Meetings as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Debugging and Tracing Elixir Applications as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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