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standalone-sysadmin.com
Personal blog · standalone-sysadmin.com/blog · on HN as MPSimmonssystemscareer
standalone-sysadmin.com is a personal blog at standalone-sysadmin.com about systems and career. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 71 times, most often “Just what we need. Another package manager. ”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Sysadmin and infrastructure posts by Matt Simmons on topics such as etcd, package management and a US bill affecting IT professionals' pay. Commenters cite them as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Just what we need. Another package manager. 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-18
- Law traversing US Senate to eliminate OT for hourly IT workers. 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-17
What Hacker News says?
hardly new, Matt Simmons coined the term in 2014. https://standalone-sysadmin.com/the-difference-between-site-...
Comment linking /the-difference-between-site-reliability-engineering-system-administration-and-devops-d05031495499
on “Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad”Submitted Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays as a story · 475 points
HN discussionI decided to investigate this comment to see if we (CloudFlare) actually had failed while this story was hot. Bottom line is that the site is on CloudFlare, and during heavy load (probably from Hacker News) the site did go down or slowed a lot. Unfortunately, it's the real web server that died or went very slow and not anything in CloudFlare. The server appears to still be having problems because if I browse to othe…
Comment linking /blog/sysadmin-calendar/
on “Why airplane bathrooms have ashtrays”Submitted Dear Package Maintainers: Stop Being Clever as a story · 92 points
HN discussionI miss having a blog. I used to blog at https://standalone-sysadmin.com/ but it's been many years. I should get back into it.
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on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”Submitted Just what we need. Another package manager. as a story · 45 points
HN discussionyeah yeah, I read the previous post ( http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2014/03/just-what-we... ) too. Maybe this time we can talk about how to meaningfully solve these problems instead of just fighting pointlessly about if old tools are so great should be used for everything. Decentralized package management huh? How would that work? A way of specifying an ABI for a packages instead of a version number? A way…
Comment linking /blog/2014/03/just-what-we-need-another-package-manager/
on “The fundamental problem of programming language package management”Submitted My take on DevOps as a story · 29 points
HN discussionFor quite a while, I've been saying that too. We have the SMART data to know when they're wearing, so why don't we treat them like race car tires? http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2012/11/flash-drives...
Comment linking /blog/2012/11/flash-drives-as-replaceable-parts/
on “SSD myths and legends: write endurance”Submitted Timing is Key - If you wait until it's obvious, it's too late as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThat interesting question was asked on Stack Overflow, and closed as off topic. ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13170334/reading-entropy-... ) A comment says that cat is consuming the entropy, not reading the file. An answer links to ( https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/03/entropy-broken ) which says "starting a process consumes entropy" but otherwise didn't seem to have an answer. (But I only skimmed.) This thread…
Comment linking /blog/2013/07/monitoring-entropy-but-but-but/
on “Ensuring Randomness with Linux's Random Number Generator”Submitted 90% Answers (and when they're wrong) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI must h/t Matt Simons for bringing my attention to this act, which would significantly curtail the salaries of many IT professionals. His blog post asking for additional input can be found here: http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/11/usa-computer...
Comment linking /blog/2011/11/usa-computer-professionals-update-act/
on “Text of S. 1747: Computer Professionals Update Act”Submitted Xenophobia and Elitism in the SysAdmin Community as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why don't we buy sysadmin books anymore? as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Law traversing US Senate to eliminate OT for hourly IT workers. as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should LOPSA "lead the march" to DevOps? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikileaks gets DNS hosting from the company wrongly accused of shutting them off as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guaranteeing scripts don’t get hung on remote ssh as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tragedy of the Commons and naming systems as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is why AWS Marketplace Sucks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should we really replicate all of our services? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eventual regulation of system administration? I think so. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowledge Workers as a Political Class (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ed Snowden was wrong professionally, but right by every other standard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with lithium battery fires as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Idea - Use Google+ for structured blog interaction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop hating your stuff. Iterate and improve: Lessons I learned from Iron Man as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recalculating Odds of RAID5 URE Failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowledge Workers as a Political Class? as a story · 2 points
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