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Olaf Alders
Personal blog · olafalders.com · on HN as oaldersprogrammingai
Olaf Alders's personal blog at olafalders.com covers programming and ai. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
I'm Olaf Alders — MetaCPAN founder and developer community builder, currently building My Mind is Racing.
Most-linked posts?
- CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-04
- CPAN Bus Factor2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-30
- Getting Started with Perlimports2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Also, we did document how we arrive at the number: https://www.olafalders.com/2021/06/30/cpan-bus-factor/
Comment linking /2021/06/30/cpan-bus-factor/
on “Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write”Submitted You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sort Your Perl Imports as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Perlimports as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The United States Is Not America as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Latte Art for Nerds as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Worktree Gotchas as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did You Mean Deprecated? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging HTTP:Tiny Calls Deep Inside Your Stack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CPAN Bus Factor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep It Local as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing Perl modules the lazy way as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tmux Plugins Galore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Handles Your Security Reviews? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pinning Claude Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Review Is the Hard Part as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Deprecate a CPAN Module as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Prettier Path as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great PTS CLI Throwdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Perlimports as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Tab Completion to Your Favourite CLI Programs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculating the Bus Factor of a Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MetaCPAN: meta::hack Wrap-up Report as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perl and Raku Foundation by the Numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting iCal via GitHub Gists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Scraping on the Cheap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year as a story · 1 points
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