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John-Paul Bader

Personal blog · smyck.netprogrammingsystems

John-Paul Bader writes SMYCK, a personal blog at smyck.net about programming and systems. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “How to Recover a Forgotten Password”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-03, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
8HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Recover a Forgotten Password
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-08-11
  2. Why Erlang?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-22
  3. Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. hukl · 2012-04-22

    Submitted Why Erlang? as a story · 156 points

    HN discussion
  2. hukl · 2011-10-02

    Submitted Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac as a story · 142 points

    HN discussion
  3. hukl · 2026-10-04

    Submitted Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort as a story · 111 points

    HN discussion
  4. hukl · 2013-07-14

    Submitted Why (not) pay for music? as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  5. hukl · 2013-02-17

    Submitted How to create a HTTP API with Erlang in 10 Minutes as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  6. hukl · 2015-12-10

    Submitted Using Truth Tables to Avoid Nested Conditionals as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. hukl · 2013-01-26

    Submitted About Web Typography as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. phire · 2016-08-13

    Submitted How to Recover a Forgotten Password as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. pavel_lishin · 2016-08-12

    Submitted How to Recover a Forgotten Password as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. ahlCVA · 2026-10-03

    Submitted Holocron: The Backup of Last Resort as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. hukl · 2018-09-24

    Submitted How to Record a Good Sounding Podcast as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. hukl · 2013-01-09

    Submitted How to build your own guitar speaker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. okket · 2016-08-31

    Submitted How to Recover a Forgotten Password as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. alexeyr · 2016-08-23

    Submitted Why Erlang? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. hukl · 2016-08-11

    Submitted How to recover a forgotten password as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. dahx4Eev · 2014-05-18

    Submitted How to set up automatic failover on FreeBSD as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. misiti3780 · 2012-12-12

    Submitted Why Erlang as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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