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Personal blog · tjheeta.github.ioprogrammingsystems

Nothing interesting... is a personal blog at tjheeta.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Ansible vs. Chef (2015)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The one HN comment is a bare link to a 2014 post on running external processes from Elixir, shared in a thread on Erlang. The comment does not judge the 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ansible vs. Chef (2015)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://tjheeta.github.io/2014/12/24/elixir-external-process-... Someone has also written a library for this, but I've forgotten where it is.

    Comment linking /2014/12/24/elixir-external-process-supervisor-restart-pattern/

    on “The Zen of Erlang”
  2. Submitted Ansible vs. Chef (2015) as a story · 170 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Ansible vs. Chef as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Getting Rid of My Macbook Air for a Thinkpad X200 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Ansible vs. Chef as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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