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Rod Hilton
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Rod Hilton's personal blog at rodhilton.com covers programming and culture. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Star Wars Saga: Machete Order (2011)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-30, 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 post for its "Machete Order" suggestion for watching the Star Wars saga: watch New Hope and Empire, then the prequels, then Return of the Jedi.
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.
Rod Hilton's rants about software development, technology, and sometimes Star Wars
Most-linked posts?
- The Star Wars Saga: Machete Order (2011)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-24
What Hacker News says?
"Machete Order": https://www.rodhilton.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-sugg... The idea is to watch New Hope and Empire to get up to the big twist, watch the prequels to get the background, then finish on Return. I do want to try it sometime.
Comment linking /2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/
on “Read the Chronicles of Narnia in Publication Order (2018)”Submitted The Star Wars Saga: Machete Order (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor starwars fans, there’s machete order: https://www.rodhilton.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-sugg...
Comment linking /2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/
on “The $55M saga of the Netflix series nobody will never see”Upvoted for the retraction. Personal opinions on best practices: - If you have multiple components to an application, whether frontend/backend or microservices, put them all in the same repository by default. It is so easy to split them apart again after your team grows to the point where it matters, but before that point you will need to carefully coordinate merging PRs to multiple repos, and sometimes rolling them…
Comment linking /2017/04/09/a-different-branching-strategy/
on “A successful Git branching model (2010)”