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mikeboers.com/blog is a personal blog at mikeboers.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It has a working feed you can follow.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mike Boers' blog for its posts on AWS account risk and ZFS inode handling. The comments only cite it as a reference for ZFS inode tricks and do not judge the writing.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Github acts as a portfolio site for programmers. No [1] [2]. It is not your resume or your CV. You should be able to highlight projects or accomplishments on your CV - github gives you no control over the layout of your profile. > The usual refrain when doing hiring is "check a candidate's Github." (I'm assuming you mean something that they do rather than something they don't do) I'm not saying you can't look at b…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/10/26/the-evils-of-gamifying-git

    on “Using a single AWS account is a serious risk”
  2. Submitted The Evils of Gamifying Git: Little green squares encourage bad behaviour as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm no expert so maybe I'm missing something. To me it seems that ZFS snapshots represents a similar challenge[1] given that the snapshots can be accessed through the .zfs directory, and that ZFS also plays tricks[2] with the inodes. [1]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbiqe/index.ht... [2]: http://mikeboers.com/blog/2019/02/21/zfs-inode-generations

    Comment linking /blog/2019/02/21/zfs-inode-generations

    on “The Btrfs inode-number epic (part 1: the problem)”

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