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Madeleine Goebel

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Madeleine Goebel writes Yak Shaving Cream, a personal blog at yakshavingcream.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Getting Started: Developing for Perl 6”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post is a summer review of Raku-related work from 2019. The only comment links it as background for a wish for single binaries of NQP, Rakudo and Rakudo programs.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Getting Started: Developing for Perl 6
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm still looking forward to a single binary for each of the following: * NQP * Rakudo * Rakudo programs Building on https://yakshavingcream.blogspot.com/2019/08/summer-in-revie...

    Comment linking /2019/08/summer-in-review.html

    on “Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON”
  2. Submitted Getting Started: Developing for Perl 6 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Getting Started: Developing for Perl 6 – Madeleine Goebel as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Modifying Perl 6 Executable to Run Bytecode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Building an ELF File – Madeleine Goebel as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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