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Sebastian Jambor
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Sebastian Jambor's personal blog at seb.jambor.dev covers programming, systems and productivity. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Systemd by Example (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sebastian Jambor's "Systemd by Example" series and its interactive playground, which teach systemd step by step with runnable exercises.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Systemd by Example (2021)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23
- Systemd by Example – The Playground2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-25
- Understanding ActivityPub Part 3: The State of Mastodon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-12
What Hacker News says?
There is a link to a post at the top which gives a detailed overview https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-the-playgrou... but the short of it is it creates a limited remote container and pipes the CLI back and forth.
Comment linking /posts/systemd-by-example-the-playground/
on “Systemd by Example”Submitted Systemd by Example (2021) as a story · 290 points
HN discussionI just tried the first exercise of creating a default target and this web application is a great learning resource for Systemd. It should be noted that it works best as a complement to the author’s series on Systemd by example ¹. I also love how the web application works without requiring multiple JavaScript dependencies hosted on third-party servers. ¹ https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-1-minim...
Comment linking /posts/systemd-by-example-part-1-minimization/
on “Systemd by Example”Submitted Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf as a story · 241 points
HN discussionalso it is a whole series, there are the other parts as well! Great series, makes systemd understandable - and less fear inspiring. https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-2-depen... https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-3-defin... https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-4-insta...
Comment linking /posts/systemd-by-example-part-4-installing-units/
on “Systemd by Example (2021)”Submitted Systemd by example – Part 1: Minimization as a story · 38 points
HN discussionIf you happen to read this, the original author, I want to you know that I, personally, have enjoyed your "systemd by example" series[1] a great deal and am really glad you are continuing to produce fine work in this area! --- [1]: https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-1-minim...
Comment linking /posts/systemd-by-example-part-1-minimization/
on “Systemd by Example – The Playground”Submitted Systemd by Example – The Playground as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Optimizations for the Shell Prompt as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd by example – Part 2: Dependencies as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd by example – Part 5: Timers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd by example – Part 3: Defining services as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding ActivityPub Part 3: The State of Mastodon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd by example – Part 1: Minimization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding ActivityPub Part 3: The State of Mastodon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding ActivityPub Part 2: Lemmy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding ActivityPub Part 1: Protocol Fundamentals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ActivityPub.Academy as a story · 1 points
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