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Henrich plays with Debian

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Henrich plays with Debian is a personal blog at henrich-on-debian.blogspot.com about systems and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Zoom: Hire an Appropriate Package Maintainer”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment does not mention this blog or its writing; it discusses blogrolls and cross-linking between blogs. The blog's posts appear to be about Debian, based on its name.

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.

something around Debian, written in funny Eng"r"ish ;)

Most-linked posts?

  1. Zoom: Hire an Appropriate Package Maintainer
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. One theory I had was that blogrolls were common previously and allowed for cluster navigation. My friends and I certainly had these pointing to each other because why wouldn't you? The big bloggers on HN I see are tptacek, rachelbythebay, and simonwillison and none of them have a blogroll. General wisdom in website SEO etc. is to keep the user on your page and not send them elsewhere and I thought that perhaps many…

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    on “The effects of algorithms on the public discourse”
  2. Submitted Zoom: Hire an Appropriate Package Maintainer as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Zoom: Hire an Appropriate Package Maintainer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Microsoft uses Debian – this is 2010s as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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