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Holden Karau
Personal blog · blog.holdenkarau.com · on HN as holdenkprogrammingsystems
Holden Karau writes Holden's Blog, a personal blog at blog.holdenkarau.com about programming and systems. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “A bot fixes spelling mistakes in github readme files”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a bare reference to the linked post on automatic spelling correction, mentioning a Perl spellchecker. It says nothing about the writing itself, so the post is described from its topic.
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.
A Canadian developer in America.
Most-linked posts?
- A bot fixes spelling mistakes in github readme files2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Someone wrote a spellchecker a while ago using perl spellchecker: http://blog.holdenkarau.com/2011/08/automatic-spelling-corre...
Comment linking /2011/08/automatic-spelling-corrections-on.html
on “Search: .lenght - Github”Submitted A bot fixes spelling mistakes in github readme files as a story · 48 points
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