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Robotic Tendencies

Personal blog · ramcq.netsystemsprogramming

Robotic Tendencies is a personal blog at ramcq.net about systems and programming. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Next Steps for the GNOME Foundation”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
10HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

An older personal blog, Robotic Tendencies, whose archived posts cover open-source desktop and Linux topics such as GNOME and Flathub. Linked for a 2005 post on GNOME and a 2023 Flathub post.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Next Steps for the GNOME Foundation
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-02
  2. Flathub in 2023
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-07
  3. Update from the Gnome Board
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-26
  4. Flatpaks, sandboxes and security
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. OT: what a jump in time this is https://ramcq.net/2005/03/ Interesting really to read and see how some things have changed and others not.

    Comment linking /2005/03/

    on “Next Steps for the GNOME Foundation”
  2. Submitted Next Steps for the GNOME Foundation as a story · 80 points

    HN discussion
  3. Flathub post (snap alternative): https://ramcq.net/2023/03/07/flathub-in-2023/

    Comment linking /2023/03/07/flathub-in-2023/

    on “Vanilla OS 2.0 Shifting from Ubuntu Base to Debian Sid”
  4. Submitted Flathub: Pros and cons of direct uploads as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted GNOME Foundation: Evolving a strategy for 2022 and beyond as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Flatpaks, sandboxes and security as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Flatpaks, sandboxes and security as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Flathub in 2023 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Next Steps for the Gnome Foundation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Next steps for the GNOME Foundation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Launching Endless OS Foundation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Update from the GNOME board as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Update from the Gnome Board as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Flathub in 2023 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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