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Joe Miller

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Joe Miller's personal blog at joemiller.me covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Joe Miller's blog for its list of statsd server implementations, which one commenter points to when discussing metrics tooling. The comments cite it as a resource and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Infrastructure Ops/Engineering. Continuously DevOping at Webscale

What Hacker News says?

  1. It should be mentioned that there is a huge bunch of various implementations of the statsd pattern; depending on ones existing infrastructure one may prefer one or the other. Heres a comprehensive list of them: http://www.joemiller.me/2011/09/21/list-of-statsd-server-imp...

    Comment linking /2011/09/21/list-of-statsd-server-implementations/

    on “Graph everything with Graphite”
  2. Submitted List of statsd server implementations as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. We're still using Skype and starting to introduce irc. One main advantage that Skype had going for it was a little known feature on the Mac Skype 5 and 6 clients: ChatStyles [1] The Mac Skype client used a copy of webkit to render the conversations and at one point provided instructions to let you hook into that and style the conversations the way you like with HTML templates, css and javascript. We took advantage o…

    Comment linking /2011/05/24/alternative-skins-for-skype-5-on-mac-osx/

    on “Ask HN: What team chat tool do you recommend? Hipchat, Flowdock, Hall, Campfire?”
  4. Submitted Correlating Puppet changes to events in your infrastructure using graphite as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Speeding up Vagrant with parallel provisioning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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