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random strings
Personal blog · blog.randomstring.org · on HN as dsr_programmingwriting
random strings is a personal blog at blog.randomstring.org about programming and writing. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “A most important job (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- A most important job (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-08
- How did dial-up ISPs work?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-09
What Hacker News says?
Good idea; I made a start here: https://blog.randomstring.org/2019/05/29/falsehoods-non-prog...
Comment linking /2019/05/29/falsehoods-non-programmers-believe-about-programming/
on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search”Submitted Comparison of Terminal Emulators as a story · 4 points
HN discussionmutt is the best MUA for dealing with large quantities of email. The key to this is the limit/tag workflow. (I wrote it up a few years ago here: https://blog.randomstring.org/2016/09/26/secrets-of-mutt/ ) In brief, you use the limit command to see only the email you are interested in, then use the tag command to do something to those specific messages. Both limit and tag use the same pattern language to specify From…
Comment linking /2016/09/26/secrets-of-mutt/
on “Mutt email client 25 years old”Submitted Quite an apropos quote for these times as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.randomstring.org It's mostly at the intersection of technology and philosophy. There's an RSS feed. If you don't like either https://blog.randomstring.org/2018/09/21/why-computer-securi... or https://blog.randomstring.org/2015/11/23/a-musical-analogy/ then you probably won't like the rest, either.
Comment linking /2015/11/23/a-musical-analogy/
on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted LLMs Have No Interiority as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed. dsr said it well here: https://blog.randomstring.org/2017/12/21/a-most-important-jo... “Your company probably needs a librarian. Maybe more than one.”
Comment linking /2017/12/21/a-most-important-job/
on “Ask HN: Is it me, or is SharePoint needlessly complicated and annoying?”Submitted How did dial-up ISPs work? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How did dial-up ISPs work? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A most important job (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where the Cloud Came From as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Once upon a time (there were programmers) (2016) as a story · 1 points
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