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Ronan Berder

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Ronan Berder's personal blog at teddy.fr covers startups and business. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “About Not Owning Sh*t”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2023first – 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

HN readers link Ronan Berder's post "About Not Owning Sh*t" as the third part of a series on optimizing material possessions, next to posts on optimizing for quality and for experience.

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.

Rambles about entrepreneurship, China, tech and design

Most-linked posts?

  1. About Not Owning Sh*t
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. I initially liked my experience with the Drupal community. One of the things that drove me away (5+ years ago), beyond the direction the project took around Drupal 6 [1], was being stuck on Drupal.org for development. In 2009, GitHub already offered everything the community would need, but instead developers were stuck with (poorly) custom made solutions. Last time I checked, it was still the case. [1]: http://teddy…

    Comment linking /2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/

    on “Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?”
  2. Submitted About Not Owning Sh*t as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  3. I was pretty involved the Drupal community for a while (permanent member of the DA, multiple modules, running a Drupal dev shop...) but left a while ago [1]. Just move to Jekyll or similar. Combined with a CMS like Jekyll+ [2] you can create very large sites and apps without having to bend a bloated stack to do what you it do in the front-end. You'll spend less time configuring things in an admin panel, and more tim…

    Comment linking /2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/

    on “Drupal Remote Code Execution vulnerability exploited widely”
  4. Submitted China And Open Source as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  5. This post is the third installment of a special Hn series on optimizing your material possessions. Optimize for Quality: http://dcurt.is/the-best Optimize for Experience: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-worst/ Optimize for Utility: http://teddy.fr/2013/02/10/about-not-owning-shit/

    Comment linking /2013/02/10/about-not-owning-shit/

    on “About Not Owning Sh*t”
  6. Submitted About Not Owning Shit as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Honestly, Drupal is doomed. I wrote about it years ago when I left the community [1] around the time many of the smart folks who were contributing started moving on to better things. Just a look at Google Trend for Drupal [2] shows you that it's been declining steadily since 2009. Comparing it to Wordpress [3] shows you the extent of the gap with the leader. Drupal has always been stuck trying to address an odd user…

    Comment linking /2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/

    on “Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework?”
  8. Submitted Dropping the Drop as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. I think a simple search on Google Trends for Drupal will give you a good idea of where it's headed. I wrote a while ago about it: http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/ A good deal of the really innovative folks have left the Drupal island.

    Comment linking /2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/

    on “The Decline of Drupal, or How to Fix Drupal 8”
  10. Submitted Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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