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Something Odd!

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Something Odd! is a personal blog at ocaoimh.ie about programming and web. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2008–2010first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link Something Odd!, a personal WordPress blog, for its WP Super Cache plugin pages and a WordPress 3.0 multisite and domain-mapping post. They cite these as resources without judging the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /wp-super-cache/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. I hate to tell you, but you can have some of the best of both worlds, as other commenters have pointed out: WP SuperCache (see http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ ) serves static pages. Unless you update 20+ times per day, it probably doesn't matter that the site takes a minute to rebuild after posting.

    Comment linking /wp-super-cache/

    on “Why to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress”
  2. Submitted WordPress 2.6 Easter Egg as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. I have had a lot of success with WP-Super Cache ( http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ ) which I believe is different from the basic wp_cache.

    Comment linking /wp-super-cache/

    on “Benchmarking Wordpress and Django”
  4. Submitted WordPress Exploit Scanner as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. WordPress 3.0, hands-down. Easy to install multiple blogs in one platform, each entirely independent of the others (including themes). Domain mapping: http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89495930 Getting started with 3.0 multi-site: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/06/02/wordpre... Another multi-site tutorial, perhaps slightly out of date: http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-map... It's easier th…

    Comment linking /?p=89495930

    on “Ask HN: Best blogging platform for multiple blogs on one site?”

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