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Knut Hellan
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Knut Hellan writes Probably Fine, a personal blog at knuthellan.com about programming, ai and career. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by a commenter as a reference on CouchDB, in a thread about the author's first impressions of building a web app on CouchDB. The comment also points to the Pillow shard manager project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
update just found a great article on scaling with CouchDB using Lounge http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/683838234/scaling-couchdb and a company that provides the service Cloudant: https://cloudant.com/ Here's another shard manager project, Pillow: http://knuthellan.com/2010/07/14/feature-prioritization-for-... I think the design philosophy for couch is keeping smaller pieces of Big Data synchronized. The sum of all t…
Comment linking /2010/07/14/feature-prioritization-for-pillow-the-couchdb-shard-manager/
on “First Impressions of Sitting a Web App on CouchDB”Submitted Sincerial, a general recommendation service, launched as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pillow, the CouchDB shard manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cutting Costs, Not Corners by moving out of big tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussion