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josh.fail
Personal blog · josh.fail · on HN as itspriddleprogramming
josh.fail is a personal blog at josh.fail about programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for DevOps-themed posts, including a guide to pulling random DevOps Borat or sadserver tweets into Obsidian and a post about Shopify's Slack commandments.
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.
Random thoughts about programming.
What Hacker News says?
> The wisdom of Devops Borat (RIP, may Taichi Ohno himself carry him into Valhalla!) condensed in fortune cookie format without any @ messages included. Just the goofiest random shit :) https://gist.github.com/textarcana/676ef78b2912d42dbf355a2f7... Or... Get a random devops_borat or sadserver tweet in Obsidian - https://josh.fail/2023/get-a-random-devops-borat-or-sadserve... --- The original https://pages.cs.wisc.e…
Comment linking /2023/get-a-random-devops-borat-or-sadserver-tweet-in-obsidian/
on “The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)”Submitted Pure bash Markdown table generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://josh.fail
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”https://josh.fail/2020/somehow-i-manage-the-ten-slack-comman... or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKIrJUOigU&t=1s
Comment linking /2020/somehow-i-manage-the-ten-slack-commandments/
on “Did Anyone Save Shopify's "Ten Slack Commandments"?”