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Patrick Debois
Personal blog · jedi.be/blogprogrammingai
Patrick Debois's personal blog at jedi.be covers programming and ai. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “What Is This Devops Thing, Anyway?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on SSH usage tips, the origins and meaning of DevOps, using Vagrant as a team, and a libvirt provider for Vagrant. Commenters cite it as a reference on these topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal research site of Patrick Debois. Connecting the dots on what is emerging and what is next in AI-native development.
Most-linked posts?
- What Is This Devops Thing, Anyway?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-07-27
- Ssh tricks - the usual and beyond 2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-08-27
- In depth research and trends analyzed from 50 different concepts as code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-27
What Hacker News says?
I wouldn't call these tricks, just using ssh properly. Here is an article with some less known features of ssh: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/08/27/ssh-tricks-the-usual-and-...
Comment linking /blog/2010/08/27/ssh-tricks-the-usual-and-beyond/
on “SSH tricks”Submitted What Is This Devops Thing, Anyway? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUntil it does, you might want to try McCloud. https://github.com/jedi4ever/mccloud/ http://jedi.be/blog/2011/09/13/libvirt-fog-provider/
Comment linking /blog/2011/09/13/libvirt-fog-provider/
on “Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)”Submitted What Is This Devops Thing, Anyway? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'd be inclined to call this "basic usage of ssh", rather than "ssh tricks". For some more interesting tips see http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/08/27/ssh-tricks-the-usual-and-...
Comment linking /blog/2010/08/27/ssh-tricks-the-usual-and-beyond/
on “SSH Tricks”Submitted Ssh tricks - the usual and beyond as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you learned something from this, be sure to read http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/08/27/ssh-tricks-the-usual-and-...
Comment linking /blog/2010/08/27/ssh-tricks-the-usual-and-beyond/
on “Getting Comfortable With SSH”Submitted Intentional Overuse Is an AI Coding Learning Strategy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCan anyone comment on the usefulness of Vagrant over distributing your own virtual box images? edit Found this to help answer my own question: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2011/03/28/using-vagrant-as-a-team/
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/28/using-vagrant-as-a-team/
on “Flask + Nginx + Gunicorn(on a Vagrant box)”Submitted In depth research and trends analyzed from 50 different concepts as code as a story · 2 points
HN discussion«DevOps» term originated from conference named «DevOps»: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2009/12/22/charting-out-devops-ideas... Wikipedia quotes description of tne conference, not a description of DevOps role. However, if you read carefully original article, you will see that main idea was to close gap between ops and dev team by bringing dev techniques, such as Agile, to ops team. So, DevOps IS developer with Ops knowledg…
Comment linking /blog/2009/12/22/charting-out-devops-ideas/
on “It Was Never About Ops”Submitted Shades of DevOps – Related Job Titles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm surprised this thread has gone on this long without reference to the DevOps movement that is looking to address this process problem. One good link: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing...
Comment linking /blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/
on “Should Developers have Access to Production?”Submitted Devops a Wicked problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a dump of blogs I follow that have lots of devops-oriented contents. http://www.kartar.net/ http://www.kitchensoap.com/ http://www.masterzen.fr/ http://blog.nistu.de/ http://www.jedi.be/blog/ http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/ http://www.unixdaemon.net/ http://www.rottenbytes.info/ http://blog.lusis.org/ http://bitfieldconsulting.com/ http://agilesysadmin.net/
Comment linking /blog/
on “DevOps Reading List: 10 Books & Blogs You Should Read”Submitted DevSecOps – Developer Motivation vs. Business Prioritisation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLinky - http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing... Call it what you will, 'DevOps' is just what you'd expect a good sysadmin to do in a sufficiently large org. That there is on going friction between developers and sysadmin ("it works on my box" is a valid excuse?) is perhaps a larger sign of the culture and people involved.
Comment linking /blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/
on “DevOps Engineering: Who does your automation?”Submitted In depth research and trends analyzed from 50 different concepts as code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat certainly used to be true for the most part. The lines have started to blur: http://jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-any...
Comment linking /blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/
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