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Makina Corpus
Company blog · makina-corpus.com/blogprogrammingdata
Makina Corpus is the company blog at makina-corpus.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Why CMSs will not die”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Makina Corpus for posts on GIS terrain data (DEM file formats and reprojection) and for a write-up on why WordPress-style CMSs are hard to replace.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why CMSs will not die2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-10
What Hacker News says?
The best articles for this are [1] (google translate it) and [2]. In [1], the author uses .asc files while in [2], .img files are used. You can treat these files as basically the same as .hgt but remember to reproject the data as different DEM sources uses slightly different projections. [1] https://makina-corpus.com/sig-webmapping/representation-des-... [2] https://github.com/nst-guide/terrain
Comment linking /sig-webmapping/representation-des-modeles-numeriques-de-terrain-sur-le-web-ombrage-et-3d
on “Oilslick – an elevation map showing fine detail in terrain”Submitted Productivity tip: add a Makefile to your project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe've talked several times with my colleagues about this, and we ended up writing things down : http://makina-corpus.com/blog/metier/2014/why-cms-will-not-d... TL;DR : The sheer amount of work to get at least to the level expected by the users outweights most motivations. Maybe one day someone will come with a way better solution, one which Wordpress cannot cope with. And then, we will have another cycle. ;)
Comment linking /blog/metier/2014/why-cms-will-not-die
on “Ask HN: Why has nobody built a better Wordpress?”Submitted Elasticsearch – Tips and best practices (part 1) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You just show up, and you are a core developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why CMSs will not die as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-format RESTful APIs with Python and Cornice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity tip: use a better grep as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Python influences JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to Python async/await as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make your Gulp modular as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elasticsearch: When giving it more memory causes more OutOfMemory errrors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQL aggregates are like fold functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monkey-patching a Python instance method as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a heat map from raster data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't be afraid to use a bad solution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding how MoodWalkR computes pedestrian routes as a story · 1 points
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