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Home on Rakhim's homepage
Personal blog · rakhim.org · on HN as freetonikprogrammingcareer
Home on Rakhim's homepage is a personal blog at rakhim.org about programming and career. Since 2018, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Blogging vs. Blog Setups”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link rakhim.org mainly for its comic (honestly-undefined/19) about elaborate blog setups versus little content, plus a comic on Git's model and other short honestly-undefined pieces.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rakhim's homepage. I build open source projects and write about technology, programming, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Blogging vs. Blog Setups19 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2020-11-28
- /honestly-undefined/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-05
- RE: Software disenchantment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-17
- We shouldn't let people get used to the idea that software fails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-11
What Hacker News says?
I've been thinking about why so many software developers feel this way, and among other things tried to explicitly distinguish[1] between three activities: 1. Programming 2. Coding 3. Software engineering I had defined them as follows: 1. Programming is solving explicit problems in a verifiable manner. 2. Coding is expressing a programming solution in a formal language. 3. Software engineering is building a product…
Comment linking /2019/11/coding-vs-dot-programming-vs-dot-software-engineering/
on “Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help”Submitted Blogging vs. Blog Setups as a story · 262 points
HN discussionRelated: Blogging vs. Blog Setups https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25240939 https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “The Static Site Paradox”Submitted Blogging vs. Blog Setups as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBlog spam? :) The URL is https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “Minimum Viable Blog”Submitted For Google, you're neither the consumer nor the product. You're a data point as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog”Submitted User is dead. And we have killed him as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI’ve noticed this a lot, too, and made this drawing as a joke: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare”Submitted 80-characters limit for text is wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOfftopic: huydotnet, would you consider adding RSS to your blog? I'd like to subscribe, but couldn't find a link anywhere, including the source code of the page. It seems like you're generating pages from Org mode. I've recently discovered ox-hugo, maybe it'll be of interest to you too. I wrote about my setup here https://rakhim.org/2018/09/moved-from-jekyll-to-hugo-and-ox-...
Comment linking /2018/09/moved-from-jekyll-to-hugo-and-ox-hugo/
on “Build a better Bookshelf”Submitted RE: Software disenchantment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsee https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “Never write your own date parsing library”Submitted Podcasting is not walled (yet) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> When a Python thread is holding on to the GIL (running Python bytecode), how many other Python threads can concurrently You've been tricked by jargon. It's a common misconception. In this context, "concurrency" has a specific meaning that is different from the everyday one you're using in this sentence. For a good introduction to what the two words mean in a software engineering context, check out this written ver…
Comment linking /summary-of-concurrency-is-not-parallellism-a-talk-by-rob-pike/
on “PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon”Submitted Blogging vs. Blog Setups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm going to start linking https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/13/ every time people try to bring up "Git is simple if you understand the model" on Hacker News again.
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/13/
on “Blogging vs. Blog Setups”Submitted Fundamental Attribution of Ability Error as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree it could have been phrased more nicely, but it actually pointed out something valid, which I didn't catch at first. The author hasn't written any posts in 5 years, and has ~15 total since 2010: https://blog.steren.fr/ As someone who blogs regularly, I'm more interested in the toolchain of people who HAVE done significant writing. I read blogs for at least a decade before I wrote one, and it's harder than it…
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “My stack is HTML+CSS”Submitted We shouldn't let people get used to the idea that software fails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionObligatory meme: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ I'm personally in the top left corner and bottom right corner at the same time, which is sort of funny. I have used WordPress since 2004-2005, and I've also written a Python static site generator before using Flask + Frozen-Flask[1]. I've also made stops through tools like Sphinx, Hugo, Gatsby, and VitePress[2]. But my personal site continues to run WordPres…
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “Blogs rot. Wikis wait”Submitted We shouldn't let people get used to the idea that software fails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFair enough! Related comic: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/19/
on “Boring SEO guide for the non-lazy”Submitted Evolution of Front end vs. Back end as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've written a short blog post "User is Dead" a while ago https://rakhim.org/user-is-dead/ > User is dead. User remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the developers, the designers, the growth hackers? What was holiest and the final judge of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our A/B-tests and new features. Who will wipe this blood off us? What garbage collector i…
Comment linking /user-is-dead/
on “Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist”Submitted Blogging vs. Blog Setups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionreminds me of this https://rakhim.org/images/honestly-undefined/blogging.jpg
Comment linking /images/honestly-undefined/blogging.jpg
on “How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare, and why you should”Submitted Process of Learning (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/
Comment linking /honestly-undefined/
on “Offbase: Static site generator in a browser”Submitted User Is Dead as a story · 1 points
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