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Noah Kantrowitz
Personal blog · coderanger.netprogrammingculture
Noah Kantrowitz's personal blog at coderanger.net covers programming and culture. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Chef has shifted away from the open source community model”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Noah Kantrowitz's posts on Jenkins configuration and Chef data bags, usually to support their own points about DevOps tooling. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Chef has shifted away from the open source community model3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-01
- Fixing Making2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-07
- Why you shouldn't use Data Bags in Chef2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-24
- Lessons Learned from Two Years of Kubernetes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-05
- Five Things in Infosec That Should Scare You2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-12
- Building a modern Jenkins service on top of Kubernetes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-05
- The State of Chef Provisioning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-09
What Hacker News says?
The worst part of my job is configuring our Jenkins server and managing builds in their dumbass groovy based DSL. I'm willing to bet that most people just want to build GitHub repos. Then why do we have to do this mess to get a decently repeatable deployment strategy: https://coderanger.net/jenkins/ I should not have to crack open plugin source code in order to configure the plugin programmatically. It's dumb and ba…
Comment linking /jenkins/
on “Shifting Gears”Submitted Chef has shifted away from the open source community model as a story · 35 points
HN discussionWe're strong believers that data bags are an anti-pattern. One of our engineers, https://github.com/coderanger , wrote something up: https://coderanger.net/2014/02/data-bags/ He was employed previously at Opscode, now Chef Inc.
Comment linking /2014/02/data-bags/
on “Critical Vulnerability: AWS Credential Disclosure”Submitted How I Write Chef Cookbooks as a story · 9 points
HN discussionFund Prosemirror if you have ever been frustrated by a WYSIWYG editor. Not because Prosemirror will be frustration free but because more effort in this area is necessary to get there. -> insert link to any Contenteditable WYSIWYG editor Fund Prosemirror because you think collaborative rich text editing should not be a technology reserved only for web giants to have and acquire. Firebase/Firepad(acquired), Hackpad(ac…
Comment linking /funding-foss/
on “Fund Prosemirror if only because you have faith in humanity”Submitted The Future of the Chef Web UI as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funding FOSS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets Management and Chef as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eight Short Chef Tips as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Two Years of Kubernetes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Support the OSI but Am Now a Member Anyway as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping Up with Kubernetes: Community Resources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Chef gather anonymous usage data? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Drones Seriously as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dangers of Overtesting with Chef as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RIP chef-rewind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Chef Provisioning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happened with the Chef mailing list migration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Poise Family of Chef Cookbooks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chef is not open source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Application Deployment in Chef as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Winding down on Chef support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chef's Application Cookbooks: A Tale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Derived Attributes in Chef as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ops Glossary: Containers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Anger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Things Is Too Hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Two Years of Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Do About StackOverflow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a modern Jenkins service on top of Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
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