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Farhan Ahmad
Personal blog · thebitguru.com/blog · on HN as farhanahmadcareerprogramming
Farhan Ahmad's personal blog at thebitguru.com covers career and programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Farhan Ahmad's blog for an itunes-patch project that stops iTunes from opening when cmus plays on macOS. One commenter cites it as a patch they know of, noting the upkeep it needs.
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What Hacker News says?
Yeah it's always irked me when I press the play button that iTunes decides to pop up. There is a patch [0] you can install, but it's annoying reapplying it after each update and now you also have to disable System Integrity Protection for it. [0]: https://thebitguru.com/projects/itunes-patch
Comment linking /projects/itunes-patch
on “Show HN: cmus-osx – Tightly integrates cmus command line music player into macOS”Submitted What extra steps do you take to increase your chance of getting an interview? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLook, all I'm saying is it happened before, Amazon makes absolutely no guarantees and it could very well happen again. To categorically deny this because you think the cases are not 'good enough' is arguing that only when there is specific documentation about S3 losing data in the last couple of months or a year will convince you that Amazon S3 can indeed lose data. Even if Amazon S3 had never lost data before then…
Comment linking /blog/view/252-Have
on “Ask HN: Is it necessary to backup S3?”