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Rob Knight

Personal blog · robknight.org.uk/blogprogrammingweb

Rob Knight's personal blog at robknight.org.uk covers programming and web. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Drupal on Docker”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a tutorial on running Drupal on Docker with PHP and Apache, which one commenter says gave them a starting point for getting Docker running. Only one comment, with no explicit judgement of 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.

Writing by Rob Knight.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Drupal on Docker
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. I recently tried out the instructions at http://robknight.org.uk/blog/2013/05/drupal-on-docker/ (70% intro to Docker, 30% PHP+Apache), and I think it put me on the right track. I still have a long ways to go (like getting PHP-FPM working in this environment) but Rome wasn't built in a day...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/05/drupal-on-docker/

    on “Getting Docker to run on Linode”
  2. Submitted Drupal on Docker as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Drupal on Docker as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Meditations on the DAO as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted After the smartphone, the next commodity technology platforms as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Explaining architectural tiers in Drupal | Rob Knight as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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