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Johan Abildskov

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Johan Abildskov writes Abildskov.io, a personal blog at abildskov.io about programming and career. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “I Hate Git Submodules”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post "Why I hate submodules" (2021), which covers the author's objections to Git submodules. It was cited in a Show HN about removing submodules.

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.

Hi, I am Johan Abildskov. I work as a Software Engineer at Uber. I help build Odin - our platform for running stateful workloads in containers. I love thinking and talking about software. For posts I…

Most-linked posts?

  1. I Hate Git Submodules
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://abildskov.io/2021/03/28/why-i-hate-submodules/

    Comment linking /2021/03/28/why-i-hate-submodules/

    on “Show HN: Get rid of Git submodules and never look back (now for GitHub users)”
  2. Submitted I Hate Git Submodules as a story · 108 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Difficulty of pricing DevOps transformation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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