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Rafał Hirsz

Personal blog · evolved.systemsprogrammingwriting

Rafał Hirsz writes evolved systems, a personal blog at evolved.systems about programming and writing. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Hosting a Blog on Matrix”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

Linked as an example of hosting a blog on Matrix, in a thread about Libli, a tiny Matrix client for building public libraries. The comment does not judge the writing.

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.

This is the personal blog of Rafał Hirsz. Read about all the things I've done and all the thoughts I had.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hosting a Blog on Matrix
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. While I have not tried/implemented Libli (yet), I'm happy to see more innovation around the matrix protocol! The more, the merrier; and we all benefit! Also, it looks like it is less setup - maybe easier to run (?) - than one of the implementations that I've read about, like this one: https://evolved.systems/hosting-a-blog-on-matrix/ ...But, again, I'm glad to see any and all implementations and ideas leveraging mat…

    Comment linking /hosting-a-blog-on-matrix/

    on “Libli, tiny Matrix client for building public libraries”
  2. Submitted Hosting a Blog on Matrix as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Making good GUIs is hard as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Hosting a Blog on Matrix as a story · 2 points

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