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Personal blog · renesd.blogspot.comprogrammingcareer

making apps, making webs. is a personal blog at renesd.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2008, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Post Modern C Tooling”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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60mentions?
14HN people?
2008–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for practical posts on GNU Screen for servers and on Ubuntu desktop performance, such as the Ubuntu Jaunty graphics slowdown. Commenters use it as a pointer to more tips.

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.

A log of some thoughts about freelancing, about indie, about making things. On the web. It's a web log. A blog.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Post Modern C Tooling
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-08
  2. Screen for ghetto servers and startup scripts
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-25
  3. Gradual packaging. From single .py file to 20 config file soup
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-08
  4. Is PostgreSQL good enough?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-14
  5. Is Type Tracing for Python Useful? Some Experiments
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. wglb · 2009-09-28Recommends
    Highly valuable. See http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/09/screen-for-ghetto-servers... for more pointers.

    Comment linking /2009/09/screen-for-ghetto-servers-and-startup.html

    on “GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal”
  2. richardboegli · 2017-02-14

    Submitted Is PostgreSQL good enough? as a story · 403 points

    HN discussion
  3. FraaJad · 2009-05-05
    Apparently, not everybody is happy with the graphics performance etc., http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/04/ubuntu-jaunty-half-speed-...

    Comment linking /2009/04/ubuntu-jaunty-half-speed-graphics.html

    on “The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 9.04”
  4. illumen · 2011-01-17

    Submitted JQuery 1.5 promises a better future. as a story · 118 points

    HN discussion
  5. illumen · 2009-08-29

    Submitted Apple broke a lot of its developer reference urls... again. as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  6. illumen · 2011-04-10

    Submitted Let's make a shit JavaScript interpreter in python. Part two. as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  7. illumen · 2009-09-11

    Submitted A survey of the many jit projects. Parrot using llvm instead of own jit. as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  8. illumen · 2010-02-19

    Submitted The secret to my web development productivity... as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  9. happy-go-lucky · 2017-02-20

    Submitted Is Type Tracing for Python Useful? Some Experiments as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  10. illumen · 2009-12-17

    Submitted Python the GIL, unladen swallow, reference counting, and atomic operations. as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  11. illumen · 2010-07-01

    Submitted Let's make a shit JavaScript interpreter Part one. as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  12. illumen · 2012-06-03

    Submitted SQL Injection via table names and field names. Case study. as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  13. illumen · 2009-08-01

    Submitted Pygame 1.9.0 released. Lots of goodies for creative programmers. as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  14. pmoriarty · 2017-09-28

    Submitted Setup.cfg – a solution to python config file soup? as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  15. illumen · 2009-09-16

    Submitted Py3k(python3) more than one year on - 0.96 % packages supporting py3k. as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  16. illumen · 2009-09-25

    Submitted Screen for ghetto servers and startup scripts as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  17. illumen · 2009-05-22

    Submitted Python's float makes me want to smoke crack as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  18. illumen · 2008-12-04

    Submitted Python 3 breaks 'hello world' as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  19. illumen · 2014-05-18

    Submitted Statically checking Python as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  20. illumen · 2009-09-23

    Submitted Linux sound is a steaming pile as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  21. illumen · 2011-08-24

    Submitted Let's make a shit JavaScript interpreter in python. Part three. as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  22. jerryr · 2019-10-08

    Submitted Post Modern C Tooling as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  23. throwaway12iii · 2019-01-02

    Submitted 2019 is Year of the Desktop as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  24. illumen · 2008-12-15

    Submitted Pygame ported to pyS60 for nokia phones as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  25. ai_ja_nai · 2020-10-10

    Submitted Is PostgreSQL Good Enough? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. fanf2 · 2019-10-10

    Submitted Postmodern C Tooling as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. renesd · 2017-02-08

    Submitted Gradual packaging. From single .py file to 20 config file soup as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. illumen · 2014-05-16

    Submitted How to statically type check python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. illumen · 2010-07-26

    Submitted Javascript(and jquery) templating on serverside and client side - with code. as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. illumen · 2008-11-21

    Submitted Buildout tutorial - automating setting up your projects Python environment as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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