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Egor Kovetskiy
Personal blog · samizdat.devprogrammingweb
Egor Kovetskiy's personal blog at samizdat.dev covers programming and web. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Notes on Nailing Your First Launch by Adam Wathan”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment links this blog, in a Bash Pitfalls thread. It gives a reading list of other shell resources (ShellCheck, shell commands, Bash variables) and does not discuss this blog's 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.
I share what I know.
Most-linked posts?
- Notes on Nailing Your First Launch by Adam Wathan2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-30
- Help Message for Shell Scripts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
- Getting lucky with posting on Hacker News2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-23
What Hacker News says?
Here's my full bash reading list: - ShellCheck: life-changing BASH linter and testing toolkit https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck - 30 interesting commands for the Linux shell – Víctor López Ferrando https://www.lopezferrando.com/30-interesting-shell-commands/ - 7 Surprising Bash Variables https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/05/11/seven-surprising-bash-va... - anordal/shellharden https://github.com/anordal/shellharden/…
Comment linking /help-message-for-shell-scripts/
on “Bash Pitfalls”Submitted Help Message for Shell Scripts as a story · 457 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Markdown for Confluence as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting lucky with posting on Hacker News as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Nailing Your First Launch by Adam Wathan as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep your GitHub forks up to date as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I self-host my blog with Docker and Ansible as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Lucky with Posting on HN as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on Nailing Your First Launch by Adam Wathan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages as a story · 1 points
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