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Omid Farhang
Personal blog · omid.dev · on HN as omidfarhangprogrammingweb
Omid Farhang's personal blog at omid.dev covers programming and web. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Exploring Advanced Functional Programming Techniques in Haskell: Monads, Functor”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for technical posts on shell scripting, such as Bash while-read loops, plus Angular and Haskell topics. Commenters discuss the Bash post and the blog's prose style.
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.
Omid Farhang, Frontend Architect and Engineering Lead specializing in Angular, TypeScript, Nx monorepos, design systems, and scalable web platforms.
Most-linked posts?
- Exploring Advanced Functional Programming Techniques in Haskell: Monads, Functor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
What Hacker News says?
How does defining `IFS` here make the second statement more efficient than the first? ``` # Inefficient while read -r line; do echo "$line" done < file.txt # Efficient while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$line" done < file.txt ``` https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-shell-scripting-techniq...
Comment linking /2024/06/19/advanced-shell-scripting-techniques-automating-complex-tasks-with-bash/
on “Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash”Submitted Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI'm 110% certain it's ChatGPT based on the other posts. If you look at the current top three latest posts: https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-shell-scripting-techniq... https://omid.dev/2024/06/19/advanced-angular-change-detectio... https://omid.dev/2024/06/18/haskell-monads-functors-and-appl... They all end with: "Happy coding!", "Happy scripting!", and "Happy Haskell coding!". For some reason, when you ask ChatG…
Comment linking /2024/06/18/haskell-monads-functors-and-applicatives/
on “Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash”Submitted Chaos Engineering in Front End Development: Enhancing Application Resilience as a story · 51 points
HN discussionIf I look at the other posts, yeah it feels very LLM-ish https://omid.dev/posts/ They are good at generating code with some stilted prose around it Also yeah the cadence and number and topics of the posts makes me suspicious -- I don't a theme or purpose, just a bunch of "content"
Comment linking /posts/
on “Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash”Submitted Mastering Concurrency in Rust: Advanced Patterns with Async/Await and Tokio as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jupyter, ChatGPT, Copilot (Part 1): The Strategic Value of Thinking in Notebooks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Advanced Functional Programming Techniques in Haskell: Monads, Functor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jupyter, ChatGPT, Copilot (Part 3): Real-World Code Examples as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jupyter, ChatGPT, Copilot (Part 2): The Technical Guide to Jupyter Setup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Debug an Electronic Device That Won't Power Up as a story · 1 points
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