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Hazel Bachrach

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Hazel Bachrach writes ChallahScript, a personal blog at challahscript.com about programming and data. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-19, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

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Why HN links it

A Postgres advice post on what the author wishes someone had told them about the database. One commenter called it really nice and was glad the author put it together.

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.

Hazel Bachrach’s technical blog. Should include some dumb and not-so-dumb stuff about software engineering.

What Hacker News says?

  1. avg_dev · 2024-11-12Recommends
    this is really nice. i am glad the author put it together. i didn't know the pg docs were 3200 pages long! i have been using it for a while and try to learn as i go. i really do like the docs. and i also like to read articles on various particular subjects as i find a need to. i think the author might find it helpful to readers to add a note to https://challahscript.com/what_i_wish_someone_told_me_about_... that if…

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    on “What I wish someone told me about Postgres”
  2. Submitted What I wish someone told me about Postgres as a story · 487 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Hierarchy of Documentation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Probably Impossible Improvements to JavaScript as a story · 2 points

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