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Robert Riemann
Personal blog · blog.riemann.ccprogrammingsystems
Robert Riemann writes ~rriemann, a personal blog at blog.riemann.cc about programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on versioning OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents with git. One commenter adds that flat XML formats (fods, fodt) make office-document diffs more readable.
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.
Personal Blog of Robert Riemann, PhD.
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/04/23/versioning-of-openoffice-libreoffice-documents-using-git/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-21
What Hacker News says?
Versioning of OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents using git: http://blog.riemann.cc/2013/04/23/versioning-of-openoffice-l...
Comment linking /2013/04/23/versioning-of-openoffice-libreoffice-documents-using-git/
on “Neovim”Submitted Distroless Containers for Corporate Use: Nix Flakes vs. Fedora as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSlight aside (since LibreOffice != Word, and XML diffs are still horribly messy): If you save your LibreOffice documents in flat XML format, (e.g. fods, fodt instead of ods, odt), placing them under version control becomes slightly less annoying — the diffs become at least _potentially_ human readable. See also: http://blog.riemann.cc/2013/04/23/versioning-of-openoffice-l... https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/glob…
Comment linking /2013/04/23/versioning-of-openoffice-libreoffice-documents-using-git/
on “Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word”Especially weird since the dude behind it is professionally situated in data protection policy work. Going with effing IBM is a really weird thing to do for his "Proof-of-Concept". Debian for its robustness or openSUSE for being distinctly european would have been much more inspiring. https://blog.riemann.cc/resume/
Comment linking /resume/
on “EU OS for the Public Sector”