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Frost Ming
Personal blog · frostming.comprogramming
Frost Ming writes Frost's Blog, a personal blog at frostming.com about programming. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “You don't really need a virtualenv”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in an Ask HN thread on Python dependency managers, and it does not mention the blog or its writing. The linked posts appear to concern Python packaging tools.
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.
Frost Ming's personal blog
Most-linked posts?
- You don't really need a virtualenv2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-26
What Hacker News says?
Just to kick the discussion off, I'm building web stuff, and ML-related back ends with some CLI tooling. Docker's in the mix, too. I liked Pipenv's clear expression of dependencies and its separate lockfile so that we could be clear about intent versus specific dependency version used. However, lately we've had real struggles with pytorch, which admittedly is an odd participant in the Python ecosystem, in that it ha…
Comment linking /2021/03-26/pm-review-2021/
on “Ask HN: Let's compare Python dependency managers”Submitted You don't really need a virtualenv as a story · 169 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's New in PDM 2.0? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Need a Virtualenv as a story · 3 points
HN discussion