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Mikkel Paulson

Personal blog · mikkel.ca/blogprogrammingpolitics

Mikkel Paulson's personal blog at mikkel.ca covers programming and politics. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2021–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a Quebec vaccine passport app analysis and for Initiative.sh, an in-browser D&D command line the author built. Comments cite or describe the projects rather than 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.

Unprofessional programmer. Former professional programmer. Former leader of the Pirate Party of Canada.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-23
  2. Digging into Quebec's electronic proof of vaccination
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. This project has been my full-time for the past six months or so (coming up on a year since I joined the Great Resignation and decided to try my hand at self-employment). I release somewhere between 2 and 10 times per week. I set out to build something that I could use as a game master at the table without having to put the game on hold as I navigated through menus and bookmarks for the various references and genera…

    Comment linking /blog/introducing-initiative-sh/

    on “Show HN: Initiative.sh, an in-browser command line for D&D”
  2. Submitted Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer as a story · 418 points

    HN discussion
  3. > I'm not sure how Quebec's system works An explanation: https://mikkel.ca/blog/digging-into-quebecs-proof-of-vaccina...

    Comment linking /blog/digging-into-quebecs-proof-of-vaccination/

    on “Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data”
  4. Submitted Digging into Quebec's electronic proof of vaccination as a story · 80 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Agile Programming with ADHD as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer (2021) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Effective Git as a Solo Developer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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