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Stephen Wood

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Stephen Wood's personal blog at heystephenwood.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a guide to installing GNU grep on macOS via Homebrew. The only comment is a neutral pointer to those install steps, in a thread about why GNU grep is fast.

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.

A blog by Stephen Wood

What Hacker News says?

  1. In case it helps anyone else, to install GNU grep on OSX using homebrew I did brew tap homebrew/dupes brew install --default-names homebrew/dupes/grep following http://www.heystephenwood.com/2013/09/install-gnu-grep-on-ma...

    Comment linking /2013/09/install-gnu-grep-on-mac-osx.html

    on “Why GNU grep is fast (2010)”
  2. Submitted How to Delete Large S3 Buckets Easily as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Deployment Manifesto as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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