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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.

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11mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2018

Most-linked posts?

  1. Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-28
  2. My case against contracts in Go
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Just use `git` to manage your dotfiles as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Show HN: A more idiomatic flags package for subcommands in Go as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted My case against contracts in Go as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Show HN: Flaggy – Easy and robust subcommands and flag parsing for Go as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Judging the Stupidity of GitHub Projects by Stars and Forks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted My Case Against the Contracts Proposal for Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Show HN: An featureful flags package for go with idiomatic subcommand model as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Show HN: A better flags package for go as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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