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Makefile.feld
Personal blog · blog.feld.meprogrammingsystems
Makefile.feld is a personal blog at blog.feld.me about programming and systems. Since 2015, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a how-to for simple FreeBSD backups. One commenter says installing sysutils/acts gives working backups in under five minutes. Only one comment, which praises the tool more than the writing.
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.
Notes and breadcrumbs of guy in tech
Most-linked posts?
- Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-01
- Git Is Not Revision Control (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-11
- Using Nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS Secondary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-23
- WolfSSL Doesn't Suck2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-17
- Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-09
- I Just Want Simple S32 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-11
What Hacker News says?
install sysutils/acts to make it dead simple Just start with this and you'll have backups in less than 5 mins http://blog.feld.me/posts/2015/05/braindead-freebsd-backups-...
Comment linking /posts/2015/05/braindead-freebsd-backups-with-tarsnap-and-acts/
on “FreeBSD 10.2”Submitted WebDAV isn't dead yet as a story · 247 points
HN discussionSubmitted iPhone 11 Pro Has Broken Exif Orientation Data as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Is Not Revision Control (2017) as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What? as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using New Bridges of FreeBSD 15 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted WolfSSL Doesn't Suck as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Is Not Revision Control as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mono's DNS is broken as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community – Makefile.feld as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Just Want Simple S3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spam Resistant Forges as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Just Want Simple S3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocking Traffic to Docker Containers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS Secondary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS Secondary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted WolfSSL Doesn't Suck, Author Reflects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tmux and SSH Agent Forwarding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caching Newznab API Requests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Percona Toolkit Information Disclosure Vulnerability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Is Not Revision Control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Routing a FreeBSD Jail Through OpenVPN as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Braindead FreeBSD Backups with Tarsnap and ACTS as a story · 1 points
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