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Jake Bauer
Personal blog · paritybit.ca/blogsystemsprogrammingculture
Jake Bauer's personal blog at paritybit.ca covers systems, programming and culture. Since 2020, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Free Software Is a Failure”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jake Bauer's blog is linked for individual posts on topics such as a keyboard review, setting up a Gopher site, and the term 'modern' in software. Commenters usually cite the posts as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal website and blog of Jake Bauer.
Most-linked posts?
- Free Software Is a Failure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-24
- Free software is an abject failure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-08
- Why IRC Is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-30
- Misskey: Alternative Fediverse software that also uses ActivityPub2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-25
- Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-22
- Why Email Is the Best Discussion Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-07
What Hacker News says?
Would you expect someone selling a product to give an accurate review? They have a conflict of interest. Give me a review from someone who does not have a conflict of interest. I'll show you what I'm looking for: https://labs.tomasino.org/mechanical-keyboards/ https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/vortex-vibe-keyboard https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Mechanical_keyboards https://www.vegard.net/the-ultimate-keyboard-part-…
Comment linking /blog/vortex-vibe-keyboard
on “The web starts on page four”Submitted Misskey: Alternative Fediverse software that also uses ActivityPub as a story · 53 points
HN discussionGitea is prob the best pick if you fancy a github-a-like. Hopefully we soon have forgefed/AP federation, to facilitate collaboration across servers. The intention is to make it a standard protocol for forges to share not just code but also the coordination/social parts, so a server can choose to allow outside contribution without registering or e-mail. As soon as you get a Postgres server up and have some flow to ke…
Comment linking /blog/choosing-a-self-hosted-git-service
on “Critical Gitlab vulnerability let attackers take over accounts”Submitted I Hate the Term "Modern" as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI signed onto Fosstodon last week to give Mastodon another try. I found the overall experience to be massively improved (last time I touched it was in 2017) and the recent traction it has gotten puts it well ahead of anything else IMO (I'm also testing out Farcaster and a few other services, but those seem pretty niche/immature in comparison). While Mastodon is a bit rough around the edges, it has that same sort of…
Comment linking /blog/mastodon-is-dead-long-live-misskey
on “Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades”Submitted Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service (2020) as a story · 22 points
HN discussion"modern". https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/why-i-hate-the-term-modern
Comment linking /blog/why-i-hate-the-term-modern
on “Storm: New Modern Torrent Client”Submitted Free Software Is a Failure as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFound via: https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/setting-up-a-gopher-site
Comment linking /blog/setting-up-a-gopher-site
on “Gophernicus: A small and secure Gopher server”Submitted Free software is an abject failure as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Software is an abject failure as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why IRC Is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Email Is the Best Discussion Platform as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why IRC Is Still Good in $Current_year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Blog Searching as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Email Is the Best Discussion Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Software is a Failure (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Styling External Links – Paritybit.ca as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Not Make an Ass of Yourself in Online Discussions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Todo Applications a Waste of Time? as a story · 1 points
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