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jpalmer.dev is a personal blog at jpalmer.dev about programming and data. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Git: An Interactive Development History”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2021first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

The only comments are from the author, who links the post explaining how an interactive visual timeline of Git development was built and asks for milestone ideas and feedback. No reader judgment of the writing.

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Generative Artist and Data Visualizer

Most-linked posts?

  1. Git: An Interactive Development History
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. OP here. I wrote up some additional details on how this was created on my blog: https://jpalmer.dev/2021/05/interactive-git-history/ . If anyone has ideas about milestones that I could add to that would make the timeline more interesting/informative, or any other feedback, please let me know. Happy to answer any questions here.

    Comment linking /2021/05/interactive-git-history/

    on “Show HN: An interactive visual history of Git development”
  2. Submitted Prioritizing with Cost of Delay as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. OP here: Happy to answer any questions or listen to feedback. I wrote up some of the details behind how I created this on my blog if you're interested: https://jpalmer.dev/2021/05/interactive-git-history/

    Comment linking /2021/05/interactive-git-history/

    on “Show HN: An Interactive Visual History of Git Development”
  4. Submitted Git: An Interactive Development History as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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