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ErrRight
Personal blog · blog.errright.comprogrammingcareer
ErrRight is a personal blog at blog.errright.com about programming and career. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Switching from Homebrew to Nix”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked ErrRight post covers switching from Homebrew to Nix for package management. The one comment uses it as a pointer to that switch and does not judge the 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.
Living live one mistake at a time!
Most-linked posts?
- Switching from Homebrew to Nix3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-04
What Hacker News says?
Yet another reason to ditch the antiquated Homebrew, and switch to the cross platform Nix: http://nixos.org/nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs https://blog.errright.com/switching-from-homebrew-to-nix/
Comment linking /switching-from-homebrew-to-nix/
on “Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics”Submitted Moving to Berlin as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from Homebrew to Nix as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from Homebrew to Nix as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embracing change as engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion