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hodgkins.io
Personal blog · hodgkins.io/blogprogrammingsystems
hodgkins.io is a personal blog at hodgkins.io about programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Best Practices with Packer and Windows”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a PowerShell prompt and Git setup post. One commenter says it replaced their habit of keeping the PowerShell ISE open.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Best Practices with Packer and Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-07
- Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-27
- Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-10
- Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-27
- Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen and Pester2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-14
What Hacker News says?
Long time powershell lover here, many of us used to just always have an ISE instance running for its flexibility, but recently I found this post and have not looked back since.. my prompt is a Ctrl + ~ away :) https://hodgkins.io/ultimate-powershell-prompt-and-git-setup
Comment linking /ultimate-powershell-prompt-and-git-setup
on “Microsoft, I Forgive You”Submitted Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere are some additional things you can do: https://hodgkins.io/up-your-cloudformation-game-with-vscode
Comment linking /up-your-cloudformation-game-with-vscode
on “Level up CloudFormation with VS Code”Submitted Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen and Pester as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Argo Workflows – Proven Patterns from Production as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating DataDog with Terraform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Practices with Packer and Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Golden Image Pipeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Up Your AWS CloudFormation Game with VS Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Practices with Packer and Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a VSCode Second Brain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing a Home Assistant installation using Cloudflare as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic Semantic Versioning for any project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alerting from logs with Splunk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana as a story · 1 points
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