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Personal blog · blog.matatu.orgprogrammingsystems

matatu blog is a personal blog at blog.matatu.org about programming and systems. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “tailgrep: tail -f | grep”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2018–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2018

Most-linked posts?

  1. tailgrep: tail -f | grep
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. lizmat · 2021-03-09

    Submitted Writing a Terminal User Interface as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  2. lizmat · 2020-08-20

    Submitted A Better Terminal Automator as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. muraiki · 2018-09-13

    Submitted Tailgrep: Following a file, grepping for lines, watching a spinner as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. bdmatatu · 2018-09-05

    Submitted tailgrep: tail -f | grep as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. bdmatatu · 2018-11-25

    Submitted Types of whitespace as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. bdmatatu · 2018-10-14

    Submitted Inventing a lightweight markup language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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