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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.

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60mentions?
6HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 29 in 2026

I'm Olaf Alders — MetaCPAN founder and developer community builder, currently building My Mind is Racing.

The author on HN?

oalders · 1,456 karma · member since 2012

I'm Olaf Alders and I am raising funds for The Perl and Raku Foundation. Please reach out to me at olaf@perlfoundation.org or https://www.linkedin.com/in/olafalders/ I'm helping people find every run, swim, ride and race @ https://mymindisracing.com/ https://olafalders.com https://mymindisracing.com/ https://prettygoodping.com https://github.com/oalders https://metacpan.org/author/OALDERS [ my public key: https://keybase.io/oalders; my proof: https://keybase.io/oalders/sigs/rAGk3U3PYkmtsRCWSspc…

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Most-linked posts?

  1. CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-04
  2. CPAN Bus Factor
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-30
  3. Getting Started with Perlimports
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Sort Your Perl Imports as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Getting Started with Perlimports as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The United States Is Not America as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Latte Art for Nerds as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Git Worktree Gotchas as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Did You Mean Deprecated? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Debugging HTTP:Tiny Calls Deep Inside Your Stack as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted CPAN Bus Factor as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Keep It Local as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Installing Perl modules the lazy way as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Tmux Plugins Galore as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Who Handles Your Security Reviews? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Pinning Claude Code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Code Review Is the Hard Part as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted How to Deprecate a CPAN Module as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted A Prettier Path as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The Great PTS CLI Throwdown as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Getting Started with Perlimports as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Adding Tab Completion to Your Favourite CLI Programs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Calculating the Bus Factor of a Project as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted MetaCPAN: meta::hack Wrap-up Report as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The Perl and Raku Foundation by the Numbers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Hosting iCal via GitHub Gists as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted AI Scraping on the Cheap as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted CPAN Uploads Are Up 50% Year-over-Year as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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