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jtimberman’s blog

Personal blog · jtimberman.housepub.org/blogsystemsprogramming

jtimberman’s blog is a personal blog at jtimberman.housepub.org about systems and programming. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Process Supervision: Solved Problem – Jtimberman's Code Blog”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's process supervision post, which compares supervisors and recommends runit over tools like Bluepill, God, Foreman and supervisor.

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.

Operations, Automation, Deployment, Workflows, DevOps; see my About page for ways you can support me.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Process Supervision: Solved Problem – Jtimberman's Code Blog
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-01-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. justsee · 2013-03-09Recommends
    "Process Supervision: Solved Problem" [0] is a great rundown too (from one of the Chef Opscode guys). His recommendation is to use runit (based on djb's daemontools). He recommends against using Bluepill, God, Foreman, supervisor and others. [0] http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/12/29/process-super...

    Comment linking /blog/2012/12/29/process-supervision-solved-problem/

    on “Daemon Showdown: Upstart vs. Runit vs. Systemd vs. Circus vs. God”
  2. craigkerstiens · 2012-03-05

    Submitted Github Is Classy as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  3. jkmcf · 2013-04-23
    FWIW, from a few months ago: http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/12/29/process-super... tl;dr use runit

    Comment linking /blog/2012/12/29/process-supervision-solved-problem/

    on “Process Managers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
  4. jtimberman · 2012-03-18

    Submitted MultiVM Vagrantfile for Chef as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  5. mikecarlton · 2016-08-20

    Submitted Process Supervision: Solved Problem – Jtimberman's Code Blog as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. jtimberman · 2013-01-22

    Submitted Process Supervision is a Solved Problem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. solarengineer · 2022-03-06

    Submitted Grief ( blog post upon leaving Chef Inc) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. luu · 2014-02-08

    Submitted Process Supervision: Solved Problem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. superchink · 2012-02-27

    Submitted Xcode Command Line Tools as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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