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Fredrik Holmqvist

Personal blog · fredrikholmqvist.com/posts · on HN as fredrikholmprogrammingweb

Fredrik Holmqvist's personal blog at fredrikholmqvist.com covers programming and web. Since 2021, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Brooks, Wirth and Go”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
10HN people?
2021–2021first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Fredrik Holmqvist's illustrated posts, such as "Why Erlang?", and mention the site's RSS feed. Comments focus on the posts' drawings and how to subscribe.

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.

The author on HN?

fredrikholm · 1,433 karma · member since 2020

Blog: https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/ Email: I do not own any hosting service. If you're wanting to contact me for this reason, I'm not the Fredrik Holmqvist you're looking for. fredrik.d.holmqvist@gmail.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Brooks, Wirth and Go
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-21
  2. Why Erlang?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-31
  3. Printf(“%s %s”, dependency, injection)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. cristoperb · 2021-09-01
    > Where do I subscribe? It looks like they have an RSS feed: https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/index.xml

    Comment linking /posts/index.xml

    on “Why Erlang?”
  2. zkldi · 2021-10-19

    Submitted Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) as a story · 525 points

    HN discussion
  3. tyingq · 2021-08-31Recommends
    >That's a really cool graphic that looks to be Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Mike Williams with telephones? I noticed it's 3 separate svg files. He has another post with similar line style drawings[1], no credits there either, so I assume the author did them? [1] https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/brooks-wirth-go/

    Comment linking /posts/brooks-wirth-go/

    on “Why Erlang?”
  4. todsacerdoti · 2021-08-31

    Submitted Why Erlang? as a story · 341 points

    HN discussion
  5. fredrikholm · 2021-08-31
    OP links to my previous entry, 'Why Erlang'[0] near the end! :) 0. https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/why-erlang/

    Comment linking /posts/why-erlang/

    on “Brooks, Wirth and Go”
  6. kiyanwang · 2021-08-31

    Submitted Brooks, Wirth and Go as a story · 258 points

    HN discussion
  7. signa11 · 2021-10-19

    Submitted Printf(“%s %s”, dependency, injection) as a story · 107 points

    HN discussion
  8. ingve · 2021-10-16

    Submitted Printf(“%s %s”, dependency, injection) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. kepler471 · 2021-10-05

    Submitted Browser Plugin: Readable as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. durbatuluk · 2021-08-21

    Submitted Brooks, Wirth and Go as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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