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Personal blog · srcco.de/posts · on HN as hjacobsprogrammingsystems

SRCco.de is a personal blog at srcco.de about programming and systems. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Kubernetes Liveness Probes Are Dangerous”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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21mentions?
9HN people?
2019–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post as a how-to for sharing OBS Studio output as a webcam in video-call apps on Linux, using v4l2loopback. One commenter reports following it on Ubuntu 18.04.

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.

Another tech blog, mostly about Python

The author on HN?

hjacobs · 348 karma · member since 2015

Senior Principal Engineer @ Zalando https://srcco.de https://floss.social/@hjacobs https://twitter.com/try_except_ This is an OpenPGP proof that connects my OpenPGP key to this Hackernews account. For details check out https://keyoxide.org/guides/openpgp-proofs [Verifying my OpenPGP key: openpgp4fpr:CFDC4B62611448B6B47CA8A8294EEE1A896A6F84]

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Kubernetes Liveness Probes Are Dangerous
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-29
  2. Kubernetes-Web-UIs – Hjacobs
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-08-16
  3. Why Kubernetes?
    2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-27
  4. Creating a virtual webcam with OBS Studio
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-04
  5. Zalando Manages 140 Kubernetes Clusters
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. hjacobs · 2019-03-27
    Triggered by Matthias' blog post, I wrote down my thoughts on the topic here: https://srcco.de/posts/why-kubernetes.html

    Comment linking /posts/why-kubernetes.html

    on “Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes”
  2. hjacobs · 2019-01-20

    Submitted Kubernetes Failure Stories as a story · 513 points

    HN discussion
  3. hjacobs · 2019-06-13
    As the author of the repo, I made it pretty clear that it's not about driving people away from Kubernetes. Please see my posts and talks about it, e.g. https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/038-kubernetes-failure... and https://srcco.de/posts/why-kubernetes.html

    Comment linking /posts/why-kubernetes.html

    on “Kubernetes Failure Stories”
  4. hjacobs · 2019-03-27

    Submitted Why Kubernetes? as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  5. hjacobs · 2019-06-13
    As the owner of the linked GitHub repo (also rendered on https://k8s.af --- thanks to Joe Beda), I highly encourage everyone to contribute their failure stories (I'm still looking for the first production service mesh failure story..). Also be aware of availability bias: Kubernetes enables us to collect failure stories in a (more or less) consistent way, this was previously not easily possible (think about on-premis…

    Comment linking /posts/why-kubernetes.html

    on “Kubernetes Failure Stories”
  6. hjacobs · 2019-10-11

    Submitted Zalando Manages 140 Kubernetes Clusters as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. zackham · 2020-04-07
    Anyone else reading this post and wondering if it's worth trying, I was able to get it working on ubuntu 18.04 without much fuss, just followed this post[1] and compiled v4l2loopback from source[2] (needed to have version >=12) [1] https://srcco.de/posts/using-obs-studio-with-v4l2-for-google... [2] https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/tree/v0.12.3

    Comment linking /posts/using-obs-studio-with-v4l2-for-google-hangouts-meet.html

    on “Share OBS output as a webcam in Hangouts, Zoom etc”
  8. talonx · 2019-10-06

    Submitted Kubernetes Liveness Probes Are Dangerous as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. hjacobs · 2019-08-18
    It's supposed to be run locally. See also my small write-up on Kubernetes web UIs in 2019: https://srcco.de/posts/kubernetes-web-uis-in-2019.html

    Comment linking /posts/kubernetes-web-uis-in-2019.html

    on “VMware Octant web-based platform to better understand Kubernetes clusters”
  10. hjacobs · 2020-07-06

    Submitted Going Bananas with Naming Microservices? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. hjacobs · 2019-09-29

    Submitted Kubernetes Liveness Probes Are Dangerous as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. michele_randi · 2019-08-16

    Submitted Kubernetes-Web-UIs – Hjacobs as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. weitzj · 2020-04-04

    Submitted Creating a virtual webcam with OBS Studio as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. talonx · 2019-10-14

    Submitted How Zalando Manages 140 Kubernetes Clusters as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. kiyanwang · 2019-09-01

    Submitted Kubernetes Web UIs in 2019 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. vvra · 2020-05-18

    Submitted Liveness Probes in k8s Are Dangerous as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. fanf2 · 2019-10-08

    Submitted Kubernetes liveness probes are dangerous as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. hjacobs · 2019-09-11

    Submitted Show HN: Kubernetes and Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. hjacobs · 2019-05-04

    Submitted Why Zalando runs many “smaller” Kubernetes clusters as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. hjacobs · 2019-04-17

    Submitted Accelerate: Software Delivery Performance and Platform Teams as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. dankohn1 · 2019-03-28

    Submitted Why Kubernetes? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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