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Presumably for side-effects is a personal blog at presumably.de about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “On the Effectiveness of FIXMEs”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on doing things with Babashka, a Clojure scripting tool, in the context of the Clojure vs. Bash comparison. The only comment is a bare link.

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. On the Effectiveness of FIXMEs
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Blog post published here: https://presumably.de/how-to-do-things-with-babashka.html

    Comment linking /how-to-do-things-with-babashka.html

    on “How to Babashka (Clojure vs. Bash)”
  2. Submitted Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale as a story · 104 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted On the Effectiveness of FIXMEs as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted On the Effectiveness of Fixmes as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to do things with babashka vs. bash as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted On the Effectiveness of FIXMEs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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