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Random Notes by agilob
Personal blog · b.agilob.netsystemsprogramming
Random Notes by agilob is a personal blog at b.agilob.net about systems and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Choose GitLab for your next open source project”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link to a post on choosing GitLab for a new project and to the blog's homepage, without judging the writing. The posts cover GitLab project choice and personal notes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Choose GitLab for your next open source project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-12
What Hacker News says?
Yes, I'm using FreeBSD on my netbook. I tried some Linux distros there, but they were too slow. My netbook came with Fedora, where yum was terribly lagging, it was taking even 40minutes to upgrade 20pacakges (what happened weekly), I tried Debian with LXDE, it was faster, but I wasn't able to watch youtube, video was lagging on 460p. GF was using it as portable PC to listen to podcasts etc, but starting any applicat…
Comment linking /qt5-on-freebsd/
on “FreeBSD 10.3”Submitted Choose GitLab for your next open source project as a story · 645 points
HN discussionhttps://www.b.agilob.net/choose-gitlab-for-your-next-project...
Comment linking /choose-gitlab-for-your-next-project/
on “GitHub lock-in?”https://b.agilob.net/choose-gitlab-for-your-next-project Point 5.
Comment linking /choose-gitlab-for-your-next-project
on “LGTM is a simple pull request approval system for GitHub”https://b.agilob.net/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”