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Eloy Coto

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Eloy Coto writes A Calustra, a personal blog at acalustra.com about programming and hardware. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2015

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Why HN links it

Linked for posts on jq, covering custom functions, modules and dotfile tips for parsing JSON at the command line. The other comments discuss statsd, InfluxDB, Grafana and logging stacks without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. And this post didn't mentioned custom functions, where things are getting more interesting :-) https://acalustra.com/jq-functions-modules-and-dotfiles-tips...

    Comment linking /jq-functions-modules-and-dotfiles-tips.html

    on “Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more”
  2. Submitted My review of Dockercon Europe 14 as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  3. Hi, I used graphite and now I'm using influxdb, in the other hand kibana+logstash+ES. With statsd and influxdb you can measure all the events in a database, it's pretty easy and you have statsd libraries in some languages. I measure all the events in my products, from response timings, database queries, logins, sign-ups, calls, all go to statsd. Logs are good to debug, but if you want to measure all events in your p…

    Comment linking /statsd-talk-at-python-vigo-meetup.html

    on “Ask HN: How do you log application events?”
  4. Submitted IMU: Understanding Accelerometers, Gyroscopes, and Sensor Fusion as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. I'm using Grafana + Influxdb + statsd and I'm quite happy: - In our django/python apps I'm using statsd client - For server monitoring I'm using diamond - For dashboards I'm using grafana. I have in a few clicks all company information. I used ELK service, but only for logs but queries were difficult for me. But, ELK is great for PFsense routers[ http://elijahpaul.co.uk/monitoring-pfsense-2-1-logs-using-el... ], or…

    Comment linking /statsd-talk-at-python-vigo-meetup.html

    on “Grafana 2.0 Released”
  6. Submitted Speed up your Ansible Playbooks with async tasks as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted JQ functions and modules in our dotfiles as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How Vigo Council (Spain) Migrated to Linux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted My review of Hashiconf Europe 16 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Embedded Rust Development Tips with Embassy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Unlocking the Magic of Pandas: A Developer's Love Story as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Optimizing Python Development: Virtualenv Kernels with Nix and Jupyter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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