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geekgonecrazy
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geekgonecrazy is a personal blog at geekgonecrazy.com about systems and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Rocket.Chat and the Matrix Protocol”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links a tutorial on setting up Rocket.Chat to talk to Matrix, and a de-Googling post describing the author's reasoning. The author is also mentioned in a comment about Alpine Linux.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rocket.Chat and the Matrix Protocol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-30
What Hacker News says?
Alpine is one of the unsung heroes of the container world. It's insane how much value Natanael Copa has created & shepherded over the years (decades?). Recently came upon an interview with him and it was the first time I saw the creator behind Alpine Linux[0]. Similarly, the musl libc project, just chugging along, giving most projects that build on top of it an easy out for portable static binaries. Thank you for th…
Comment linking /2020/09/07/tinkerbell-or-ipxe-boot-on-ovh/
on “Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server”Submitted De-Googling: My Progress as a story · 304 points
HN discussionAt least it’s in line with their reasoning: https://geekgonecrazy.com/2020/04/27/de-googling/ . But yes, the threat of lock-in/deplatforming/being at the mercy of a massive corporation is still present.
Comment linking /2020/04/27/de-googling/
on “De-Googling: My Progress”Submitted Rocket.Chat and the Matrix Protocol as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAlso this awesome tutorial on how to actually setup your Rocket.Chat instance to talk Matrix: https://geekgonecrazy.com/2022/05/30/rocketchat-and-the-matr...
Comment linking /2022/05/30/rocketchat-and-the-matrix-protocol/
on “Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix”