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Eric Greer
Personal blog · ericgreer.infoprogrammingcareer
Eric Greer's personal blog at ericgreer.info covers programming and career. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Most-linked posts?
- Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-28
- My case against contracts in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-30
What Hacker News says?
I made a post recently on HN about this. All you need is git. It does everything. I didn't know why people want symlinks and everything else. https://ericgreer.info/post/2025-08-31-simple-dotfiles-scrip...
Comment linking /post/2025-08-31-simple-dotfiles-script/
on “Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust”Submitted Just use `git` to manage your dotfiles as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A more idiomatic flags package for subcommands in Go as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My case against contracts in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Flaggy – Easy and robust subcommands and flag parsing for Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Case Against the Contracts Proposal for Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: An featureful flags package for go with idiomatic subcommand model as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A better flags package for go as a story · 1 points
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