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Jonathan Dowland

Personal blog · jmtd.net/log · on HN as jmtdsystemsprogramming

Jonathan Dowland's personal blog at jmtd.net covers systems and programming. Since 2009, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Frictionless External Backups with Systemd”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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46mentions?
25HN people?
2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2022

The author on HN?

jmtd · 84 karma · member since 2012

https://jmtd.net

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Frictionless External Backups with Systemd
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-12
  2. WadC
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-23
  3. Blog After Death
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-14
  4. What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-23
  5. Hacking Xiaomi IoT Thermometers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-16
  6. Git Worktrees
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-04
  7. Vim Plugins by Tim Pope
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. jmtd · 2020-04-08
    https://jmtd.net/ I've been blogging for about 20 years. Exactly what I write about has changed over that time (of course), but in recent times I've been writing about my PhD (applying purely-functional programming to distributed stream processing); cultural stuff I like, books, music, in particular Nintendo Switch games recently; free software stuff, particularly around Linux and Debian (I'm a Debian developer); no…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”
  2. pdw · 2015-04-23

    Submitted What happens if you remove randomness from Doom? as a story · 450 points

    HN discussion
  3. ghayes · 2015-07-01
    To be fair, the key insight to the DOOM prng is that it was used frequently enough for hundreds of mundane events that a player didn't realize (or care) that it wasn't very random at all. There was never a "guess the number" game. A good write-up is here: http://jmtd.net/log/deterministic_doom/

    Comment linking /log/deterministic_doom/

    on “The random number generator of DOOM”
  4. opless · 2021-11-05

    Submitted Things I would like to 3D print as a story · 124 points

    HN discussion
  5. paulannesley · 2015-07-01
    Related: http://jmtd.net/log/deterministic_doom/ Via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9429889

    Comment linking /log/deterministic_doom/

    on “The random number generator of DOOM”
  6. pch00 · 2022-10-10

    Submitted LaTeX Makes Me Angry as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  7. peter123 · 2009-04-25

    Submitted My first attempt at hacking on Linux: a story as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  8. todsacerdoti · 2021-11-12

    Submitted Frictionless External Backups with Systemd as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. JNRowe · 2022-04-29

    Submitted Hyperlinked PDF Planner as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. veqq · 2025-05-19

    Submitted Blog After Death as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. todsacerdoti · 2025-05-28

    Submitted Linux Mount Namespaces and Persistence as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. edward · 2024-08-22

    Submitted Fediverse and Feeds as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. pabs3 · 2022-10-06

    Submitted Git Worktrees as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. jmtd · 2022-10-04

    Submitted Git Worktrees as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. ecliptik · 2022-06-28

    Submitted WadC – Procedural Programming Environment for Henerating Doom Maps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. opless · 2022-01-28

    Submitted Using an iPad for Note-Taking in Talks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. opless · 2021-12-21

    Submitted Vim Plugins by Tim Pope as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. pabs3 · 2021-12-09

    Submitted Java in a Container World [slides] as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. qwertyuiop924 · 2016-10-05

    Submitted WadC as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. ashitlerferad · 2016-09-23

    Submitted Wad Compiler: lazy functional language and IDE for construction of Doom maps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. JNRowe · 2024-11-10

    Submitted Progressively enhancing CGI apps with Htmx as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. notmysql_ · 2022-12-01

    Submitted Hacking Xiaomi IoT Thermometers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. edward · 2022-08-19

    Submitted Jmtd → log → hledger → dues (or blues) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. whalesalad · 2022-08-09

    Submitted Frictionless External Backups with Systemd as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. opless · 2022-03-09

    Submitted Fixing Google Meets poor aspect ratio handling in Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. opless · 2022-02-01

    Submitted Amateur Archiving Activities as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. JNRowe · 2021-09-14

    Submitted GHC Rewrite Rules as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. edward · 2020-11-10

    Submitted Borg, confidence in backups, GtkPod and software preservation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. ecliptik · 2020-02-17

    Submitted Amiga floppy recovery project scope as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. zdw · 2019-05-12

    Submitted Debian Buster and Wayland as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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