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quietlife.net is a personal blog at quietlife.net about writing, culture and programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Jira Is Bad”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link quietlife.net's posts on Nashville hot chicken: a breakdown of its variations and a restaurant ranking. Commenters call the variations breakdown nice and the ranking still pretty good.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Jira Is Bad
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. sciurus · 2019-05-13Recommends
    Not unless you consider lard plus cayenne to be hot sauce. https://quietlife.net/2014/11/16/nashville-style-hot-chicken... is a nice breakdown on the variations. https://www.nashvillescene.com/food-drink/article/13022673/b... is an example recipe.

    Comment linking /2014/11/16/nashville-style-hot-chicken/

    on “How Hot Chicken Happened”
  2. Submitted Jira Is Bad as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. sciurus · 2019-05-13Recommends
    It's too dry! I do miss living in walking distance of both Bolton's and Pepperfire. cwage's ranking at https://quietlife.net/2015/07/27/the-best-hot-chicken-in-nas... is older but still pretty good.

    Comment linking /2015/07/27/the-best-hot-chicken-in-nashville/

    on “How Hot Chicken Happened”
  4. No. No it wasn't. It has been despised at least 10 years 2017: Trello, “Jira Sucks”, and Tool Dysfunction https://cutle.fish/blog/trello-jira-sucks-and-tool-dysfuncti... 2019: Over 16 reasons why Jira and Confluence suck https://jackthenomad.com/15-reasons-why-jira-and-confluence-... 2020: Everyone hates Jira, but no one stops using it https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/izu5u3/eve... 2020: 7 reasons w…

    Comment linking /2020/06/30/jira-is-bad

    on “An important update on our team”

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