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Jorgen Schaefer

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Jorgen Schaefer writes Jorgen’s Weblog, a personal blog at blog.jorgenschaefer.de about programming and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Why systemd?”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2013–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN comments link this blog's 2013 post "Monads for Normal Programmers", which explains monads to programmers, and point readers to Edward Kmett's comments on it. No comment judges the writing itself.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why systemd?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. One of the most informative writings I've read on the topic of systemd and its benefits and comparison with other tools was written by Russ Allbery, which explains his contribution to Debian's choice to adopt it [1]: > I did a fairly extensive evaluation of both upstart and systemd by converting one of my packages[] to a native configuration with both systems. []I tried to approach each init system on its own terms…

    Comment linking /2014/07/why-systemd.html

    on “20 years as a Debian maintainer”
  2. Submitted Why systemd? as a story · 235 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's not. Please check out Edward Kmett's comments: http://blog.jorgenschaefer.de/2013/01/monads-for-normal-prog... http://blog.jorgenschaefer.de/2013/01/monads-for-normal-prog...

    Comment linking /2013/01/monads-for-normal-programmers.html?showComment=1360280760790&

    on “Monads for Normal Programmers”
  4. Submitted The Sorry State of Emacs Lisp Package Archives as a story · 86 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Monads for Normal Programmers as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Waiting for Multiple Queues in Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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