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Stig's Soapbox
Personal blog · brautaset.orgprogrammingcareer
Stig's Soapbox is a personal blog at brautaset.org about programming and career. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Digital Minimalism”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a write-up of the YAML exponent problem, where an unquoted hex hash can be parsed as a float in scientific notation. The comment cites it as related reading.
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?
- Digital Minimalism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-01
- The YAML Exponent Problem causing chaos in your config files2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-10
What Hacker News says?
Related: the YAML exponent problem[0] TLDR: unquoted hex hash in YAML is fine until it happens to match \d+E\d+ when it gets interpreted as a float in scientific notation. [0] https://www.brautaset.org/posts/yaml-exponent-problem.html
Comment linking /posts/yaml-exponent-problem.html
on “YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)”Submitted My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy as a story · 170 points
HN discussionSubmitted The YAML Exponent Problem causing chaos in your config files as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Levelling Up Pull Requests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Minimalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Team Decisions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Journey from Chaos to Version Control: A Developer's Tale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alien Artefacts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Minimalism as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
