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LPAR
Personal blog · lpar.ath0.comprogrammingsystems
LPAR is a personal blog at lpar.ath0.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The vi Family”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on systemd, init systems and PID 1, and on closures in Scheme and JavaScript. The comments only quote or cite the posts; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
mathew's personal programming web site
Most-linked posts?
- The vi Family2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-06
- /2014/05/18/why-i-dont-like-systemd/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-31
What Hacker News says?
it did, but systemd is not the silver bullet that will fix it. "It's often said that a half-truth is worse than a lie. In the case of systemd, a half-improvement is worse than a complete flop. People are focusing on the features they want to use and ignoring the ones that will come back to bite them later. No, my biggest problem with systemd is that it is repeating the mistakes of System V all over again. It's just…
Comment linking /2014/05/18/why-i-dont-like-systemd/
on “Busybox removes support for systemd”Submitted Corporate Linux as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI've never been critical of devuan, only what I consider unfounded accusations against systemd. But yeah, I probably went a bit overboard! Would have been better if I had written a blog post I guess. If someone chooses SysV init, I'm not at all concerned, it's a different way of running a system and very effective. I was very happy with it over the years! My main issues are the following oft repeated claims: 1. syst…
Comment linking /2014/05/18/why-i-dont-like-systemd/
on “Rethinking PID 1 (2010)”Submitted The vi Family as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn Scheme named functions are simply syntactic sugar for anonymous functions (or Lambda expressions). The same is true in Javascript. http://lpar.ath0.com/2010/10/14/javascript-when-is-a-functio...
Comment linking /2010/10/14/javascript-when-is-a-function-not-a-function/
on “Closures – A Simple Explanation (Using Ruby)”Submitted RFC 3986 considered harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The vi family as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPv6 Address Assignment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sometimes old technology is the best option as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SI Prefixes - a plea for sanity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fractious leap second debate as a story · 1 points
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