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mt_caret's blog
Personal blog · mt-caret.github.io/blogprogrammingmath
mt_caret's blog is a personal blog at mt-caret.github.io about programming and math. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Encypted Btrfs Root with Opt-In State on NixOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a HN thread on Volta as a companion to Graham Christensen's 'erase your darlings' post. The linked post covers opt-in state with Nix and ZFS or btrfs for configuration management.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Encypted Btrfs Root with Opt-In State on NixOS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29
What Hacker News says?
You can also do some cool things with configuration management and reproducible builds with Nix + ZFS or btrfs: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings https://mt-caret.github.io/blog/posts/2020-06-29-optin-state...
Comment linking /blog/posts/2020-06-29-optin-state.html
on “Volta”Submitted Nth Fibonacci number in O(logn) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encypted Btrfs Root with Opt-In State on NixOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encypted Btrfs Root with Opt-In State on NixOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussion