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MClare Blog

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MClare Blog is a personal blog at mclare.blog about programming and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Bus Factor”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on the GitHub bus factor, a plugin that shows how knowledge is concentrated in open source, and a bloom-filter keyboard project. One commenter calls the follow-up's graphs nice.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Bus Factor
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Post Author here! mclare posted the other half with visualizations: https://mclare.blog/posts/the-bus-factor/ Check it out!

    Comment linking /posts/the-bus-factor/

    on “Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write”
  2. Submitted Further Adventures in Cython Profiling as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. shae · 2024-11-12Recommends
    Could happen? mclare published the other half of the blog post with nice graphs a few hours later: https://mclare.blog/posts/the-bus-factor/ I'd like to build a tree of open source dependencies and find out which parts need the most knowledge spreading.

    Comment linking /posts/the-bus-factor/

    on “Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write”
  4. Submitted The Bus Factor as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. It kinda works on a keyboard also https://mclare.blog/posts/making-a-bloom-filter-keyboard/

    Comment linking /posts/making-a-bloom-filter-keyboard/

    on “Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?”
  6. Submitted Making a Bloom Filter Keyboard as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A Year of Professional Development as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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