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for your information is a personal blog at alec.fyi about programming, web and productivity. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Talk the Talk (A Tech Glossary)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link alec.fyi for a guide to getting started with AWS Lambdas using Serverless.com infrastructure-as-code, and for a comment on Google search operators for finding niche sites.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Talk the Talk (A Tech Glossary)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. For more queries, you can add modifiers to a Google Search to get the results you want Seeing folks mention the NOT operator (-). It's quite powerful! For example, you can do: intext:"Powered by intercom" -site:intercom.com will find all the sites that use the Intercom widget or ~blog bread baking -inurl:checkout -intext:checkout will find bread blogs (or similar) without commercial intent I put together a list of t…

    Comment linking /dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html

    on “Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?”
  2. Submitted Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data as a story · 560 points

    HN discussion
  3. I have a guide on using Serverless.com infra-as-code to get started with Lambdas. 0% console GUI https://www.alec.fyi/set-up-serverless.html

    Comment linking /set-up-serverless.html

    on “The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners”
  4. Submitted Talk the Talk (A Tech Glossary) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Talk the Talk (A Tech Glossary) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Understanding Google Auths (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Make your own personal CRM (for free in 20 minutes) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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