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Erik Dörnenburg

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Erik Dörnenburg writes erik doernenburg, a personal blog at erik.doernenburg.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

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Why HN links it

Linked as a source on making build pain visible and on using multiple GitHub accounts with git, via a per-repository core.sshCommand setting. Commenters cite it without judging it.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal website of Erik Doernenburg, an experienced technologist and software engineer, interested in emerging technologies and software excellence

What Hacker News says?

  1. Great to see more data-driven approaches for optimising builds. Erik has written a bit about his approaches in the past [1] and Graham [2] and I [3] are both currently trying different ways of visualising pains the teams have we are working in. [1] http://erik.doernenburg.com/2009/11/making-build-pain-visibl... [2] https://github.com/kuona/kuona [3] https://github.com/cburgmer/buildviz

    Comment linking /2009/11/making-build-pain-visible/

    on “CircleCI Insights: Helping You Understand Your Builds”
  2. Submitted Rust: My first impressions as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. The host shenanigans are simpler addressed with `git config core.sshCommand` which overrides the default key and selects the desired one on a per repository level. source: https://erik.doernenburg.com/2017/12/using-multiple-github-a...

    Comment linking /2017/12/using-multiple-github-accounts/

    on “Gitas – A tool for Git account switching”
  4. Submitted The Buy-vs-Build Shift (part 1) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Dependency Structure Matrix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Metrics Tree Maps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Language of SOA as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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