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Mikko Ohtamaa
Personal blog · opensourcehacker.comprogrammingweb
Mikko Ohtamaa writes Open Source Hacker, a personal blog at opensourcehacker.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links this blog's post on dtruss, the macOS equivalent of strace, for system-call tracing. The comment is a bare pointer to the post, so there is no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the personal blog of Mikko Ohtamaa, a software hacker. My expertise areas include HTML5, Python, Javascript, blockchain and Linux / UNIX. To contact me please send email to mikko at opensourcehacker dot com. RSS Follow me on Twitter Follow me on Facebook
What Hacker News says?
Dtruss: https://opensourcehacker.com/2011/12/02/osx-strace-equivalen... Also, on OSX you have access to (mostly) the full power of dtrace, so you can do diagnostics on closed-source, debug-stripped running programs that make strace look small by comparison.
Comment linking /2011/12/02/osx-strace-equivalent-dtruss-seeing-inside-applications-what-they-do-and-why-they-hang/
on “Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011)”Submitted Adobe's Source Code Pro Font as a story · 166 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers as a story · 102 points
HN discussionSubmitted Power searching using grep as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted PyCharm vs. Sublime Text as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintaining modular Javascript codebase with RequireJS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clean up Python source code with PythonTidy, available as Sublime Text 2 plugin as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sublime Text 2 Tips for Python Developers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 reasons why you should send your corporate representative to PyCon (Finland) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating animated GIF screen captures on OSX as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Install IE6-IE9 virtual machines on OSX and Linux using one liner script as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turbocharge your Python prompt and Django shell with IPython Notebook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically sourcing and showing software documentation authors from Github as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Javascript autocompletions and having one for Sublime Text 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Presentation screencasts with YouTube recordings for meetups in Google Hangout as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never use hard tabs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rolling time window counters with Redis and mitigating botnet login attacks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sublime Text 3 for Python, JavaScript and web developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accepting and spending bitcoins in a Django application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Varnish shell singleliners: reload config, purge cache and test hits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting timezones in browser address bar with DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building chat applications for Skype in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating animated GIF screen captures on OSX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obfuscate.js - scramble sensitive text away from web page screenshots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Timeouting commands in shell scripts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sublime Text 2 tips for Python and web developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ghetto: Continuous integration server with source on github as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Measuring the quality of web framework: how does it do a date picker widget? as a story · 1 points
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