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jade's www site
Personal blog · jade.fyi/blogsystemsprogramming
jade's www site is a personal blog at jade.fyi about systems and programming. Since 2021, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on Diffwatch, a tool for watching AI agents' filesystem changes and seeing diffs. The one comment discusses dtrace and file-tracing tools rather than the site's writing.
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.
computers i guess
Most-linked posts?
- You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-07
- Misadventures in DTrace: how to debug the macOS kernel4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-14
- The Postmodern Build System3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-19
- Clipper: TLS-transparent HTTP debugging for native apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-24
- Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-02
What Hacker News says?
Np. Distributed tracing tools for containers already do this but none have a --diff feature for logging what changed in changed files. Does this command also track renames? sudo dtrace -n 'vfs::*:entry { printf("%-16s %-6d %s", execname, pid, probefunc); }' Isn't it just a list of syscalls instead of vfs:*? Actually, re: Dtrace on MacOS with SIP and apparently without sufficient symbols installed to trace kernel sys…
Comment linking /blog/misadventures-in-dtrace/
on “Diffwatch – Watch AI agents touch the FS and see diffs live”Submitted Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-fla as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misadventures in DTrace: how to debug the macOS kernel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Postmodern Build System as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misadventures in DTrace: how to debug the macOS kernel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docs Tricks and GNUs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The postmodern build system (updated 2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Postmodern Build System as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misadventures in Dtrace with macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pinning NixOS with npins, or how to kill channels forever without flakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clipper: TLS-transparent HTTP debugging for native apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clipper: TLS-transparent HTTP debugging for native apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stopping Evaluation from Blocking in Nix as a story · 1 points
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