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shrub.industries
Personal blog · shrub.industries/wordssystemsprogramming
shrub.industries is a personal blog at shrub.industries about systems and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's software-philosophy post, which states rules such as refusing software that does not support musl, refuses to statically link, or uses GNU software. One commenter quotes these lines while discussing system communication.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-06
What Hacker News says?
https://shrub.industries/words/software.html "i do not use software that does not support musl" I have a minimal glibc chroot for certain large programs that still won't compile with musl that I want to play around with But I don't rely on any of those programs Otherwise the entire userland is statically-linked "i do not use software that refuses to statically link" Ibid "i do not use GNU software" Ibid "i refuse to…
Comment linking /words/software.html
on “The Problem of System Communication”Submitted Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem of System Communication as a story · 1 points
HN discussion