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Fancy Beans
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Fancy Beans is a personal blog at fancybeans.com about programming and culture. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Use S3 as a Private Git Repository with Jgit”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on using Amazon S3 as a private Git repository, linked as a guide to pushing repos to S3 with JGit. Also cited for a 2018 post on Seattle single-family zoning and housing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Literally a metaphor
Most-linked posts?
- Use S3 as a Private Git Repository with Jgit4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-04-26
- Good Intentions Fail at Scale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-09
What Hacker News says?
jgit is a java implementation of git, that just so happens to have built in s3 support. You can get a self contained cli (jgit.sh) from here: https://eclipse.org/jgit/download/ . It does not have an eclipse dependency. you can then just add an s3 remote and push to this remote as part of your CI flow. Here is a decent article that describes the end-to-end: http://www.fancybeans.com/blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a…
Comment linking /blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a-private-git-repository/
on “AWS CodeCommit”Submitted Use S3 as a Private Git Repository with Jgit as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is also really useful How to Use S3 as a Private Git Repository http://www.fancybeans.com/blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a...
Comment linking /blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a-private-git-repository/
on “Show HN: Git-remote-dropbox – use Dropbox as a true Git server”Submitted Raising the Bar on Leaving as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can use JGit ( https://github.com/eclipse/jgit ) to store to S3. See http://www.fancybeans.com/blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a...
Comment linking /blog/2012/08/24/how-to-use-s3-as-a-private-git-repository/
on “Dat – A git-like tool for large datasets”Submitted Good Intentions Fail at Scale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNIMBYs are a huge problem in Seattle. Depending on how you count, roughly 80% of the city is zoned single family[0]. Construction isn't happening fast enough. In 2016 Seattle only gained 0.4 housing units for every job[1]. [0] https://fancybeans.com/2018/01/24/65-57-35-how-much-seattle-... [1] http://blog.employmarket.com/2017/03/13/2016-metro-area-empl...
Comment linking /2018/01/24/65-57-35-how-much-seattle-land-is-zoned-single-family-really/
on “Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems?”Submitted Need more than good intentions for better culture as a story · 1 points
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