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Mikko Ohtamaa

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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.

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2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2012

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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?

  1. 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)”
  2. Submitted Adobe's Source Code Pro Font as a story · 166 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers as a story · 102 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Power searching using grep as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted PyCharm vs. Sublime Text as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Maintaining modular Javascript codebase with RequireJS as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Clean up Python source code with PythonTidy, available as Sublime Text 2 plugin as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Sublime Text 2 Tips for Python Developers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted 3 reasons why you should send your corporate representative to PyCon (Finland) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Creating animated GIF screen captures on OSX as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Install IE6-IE9 virtual machines on OSX and Linux using one liner script as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Turbocharge your Python prompt and Django shell with IPython Notebook as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Automatically sourcing and showing software documentation authors from Github as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Javascript autocompletions and having one for Sublime Text 2 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Presentation screencasts with YouTube recordings for meetups in Google Hangout as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Never use hard tabs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Rolling time window counters with Redis and mitigating botnet login attacks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Sublime Text 3 for Python, JavaScript and web developers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Accepting and spending bitcoins in a Django application as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Varnish shell singleliners: reload config, purge cache and test hits as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Converting timezones in browser address bar with DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Building chat applications for Skype in Python as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Creating animated GIF screen captures on OSX as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Obfuscate.js - scramble sensitive text away from web page screenshots as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Timeouting commands in shell scripts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Sublime Text 2 tips for Python and web developers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Ghetto: Continuous integration server with source on github as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Measuring the quality of web framework: how does it do a date picker widget? as a story · 1 points

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