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Stephen Bussey

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Stephen Bussey's personal blog at stephenbussey.com covers programming and web. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “What Is a GenServer?”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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7HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

The only comment links one of Stephen Bussey's posts on Elixir supervision and OTP, framed as self-promotion for the Elixir community. The posts cover learning Erlang and Elixir as an experienced developer.

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?

  1. What Is a GenServer?
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. A bit of self promotion that is well intentioned (I seek to help the elixir community and not sell myself in any way): https://stephenbussey.com/2018/01/08/designing-elixir-superv... Learning about OTP took several tries for me. It didn't click until I had a few real world trials under my belt, because I couldn't see the use case for things. I recently did a project where I had to build a distributed "choke point" a…

    Comment linking /2018/01/08/designing-elixir-supervisor-trees.html

    on “Learning Erlang as an Experienced Developer”
  2. Submitted What Is a GenServer? as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Distributed In-Memory Caching in Elixir as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted My Experiences Writing Real-Time Phoenix as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted React in LiveView: How and Why? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted What Is a GenServer? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What Is a GenServer? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted What Is a GenServer? as a story · 1 points

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