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So… a weblog by norm
Personal blog · so.nwalsh.comprogrammingweb
So… a weblog by norm is a personal blog at so.nwalsh.com about programming and web. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Norman Walsh's post describes a developer's trouble integrating with a distributed system without an internet connection, and the extra steps this requires. The one comment disputes the complaint.
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.
Norm's weblog.
What Hacker News says?
So: developer attempts to integrate into a global distributed system without a connection to the Internet and complains he can't get it working without extra steps? Obviously there's two ways of doing this: you put everything online and then there's no extra steps, which the author doesn't want to do, or, if you want to do this offline, then extra steps are needed. Back in the day we used "dev environments" with tig…
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