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Jeff Dickey
Personal blog · jdx.dev/postsprogrammingsystems
Jeff Dickey's personal blog at jdx.dev covers programming and systems. Since 2026, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Going Full Time on Open Source”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeff Dickey's site for his open-source tooling work, mainly the mise project, and its sponsors page. The comments mention the tooling and sponsorship rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jeff Dickey's site about open source developer tools, including mise, fnox, aube, hk, usage, and other projects.
Most-linked posts?
- Going Full Time on Open Source4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-04-23
- /sponsors.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-10
- Packslip – signed release manifest for archives, installers, or executables2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-06
What Hacker News says?
for skills related to specific cli tools, i just wrote a standard for this! it's obviously not widely used yet, but since mise will support installing the skills alongside the tool, i suspect it will have decent adoption i used to be a bit bearish on skills—thinking that llms should just use --help, but i've come around on that. i think skills are a great way to describe higher level workflows that use multiple comm…
Comment linking /posts/2026-09-05-introducing-packslip/
on “Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?”Submitted Packslip – signed release manifest for archives, installers, or executables as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOn another OS tooling note, jdx is joining entire.io while continuing to work on mise: https://jdx.dev/sponsors.html
Comment linking /sponsors.html
on “Garnix Is Joining Shopify”Submitted Top Features in Mise You're Not Using as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCodeRabbit's support for mise is greatly appreciated, not only do i depend on CodeRabbit for code reviews but CodeRabbit is also a partner level sponsor for mise and my other open source work: https://jdx.dev/sponsors.html thanks so much!
Comment linking /sponsors.html
on “1M+ monthly code reviews in open-source repos delivered by CodeRabbit”Submitted Dotfiles That Save Themselves – Jdx as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Full Time on Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Full Time on Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Full Time on Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mise dev goes full time on open source as a story · 2 points
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