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Nat Taylor
Personal blog · nattaylor.com/blogprogrammingsystemsculture
Nat Taylor's personal blog at nattaylor.com covers programming, systems and culture. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Snowflake Database Internals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, 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 an HN thread on Snowflake's popularity with a bare link only. The post, judging by its URL, covers Snowflake's internals, a 2019 blog post.
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.
Nat Taylor's website, blog, code, photos and more including mini-sites for his Web Design services and East Boston info.
Most-linked posts?
- Snowflake Database Internals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-20
- Electric Meter Saga (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-04
What Hacker News says?
I painstakingly convert some PDFs from Boston and Massachusetts government into HTML and people prefer them for the flexibility and accessibility. My workflow is to use pdftohtml then edit the result as Markdown and screenshot the figures before converting to HTML with pandoc. I have been pushing to publish in HTML from the get-go, in part by citing this blog, with some success. For example, the Massachusetts Secret…
Comment linking /eastboston/blog/2019/3247-2017-logan-airport-espr/
on “Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (2018)”Submitted I Fought Comcast and Almost Won as a story · 52 points
HN discussionhttps://nattaylor.com
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Electric Meter Saga (2017) as a story · 33 points
HN discussionhttps://nattaylor.com/blog/2019/snowflake-internals/
Comment linking /blog/2019/snowflake-internals/
on “Ask HN: Technology Reasons for Snowflake Hype?”Submitted Snowflake Database Internals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Landmines: Thrash, Nags and Bloat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electric Meter Saga as a story · 1 points
HN discussion