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Personal blog · sysadmin1138.net/mt/blogsystemsprogrammingcareer

SysAdmin1138 Explains is a personal blog at sysadmin1138.net about systems, programming and career. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Silence is as much social lubrication as lying”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
8HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Most-linked posts?

  1. Silence is as much social lubrication as lying
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Serplat · 2012-12-31

    Submitted How multi-disk failures happen as a story · 113 points

    HN discussion
  2. zdw · 2026-10-07

    Submitted Calling It Quits on ServerFault as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  3. zdw · 2015-03-08

    Submitted Silence is as much social lubrication as lying as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  4. zdw · 2024-07-09

    Submitted All metrics are scar tissue (unless they're Business Intelligence) as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. slyall · 2019-08-24

    Submitted Recession Is Coming - How it'll affect tech companies and jobs as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  6. slyall · 2012-12-03

    Submitted A very special interview (North Pole IT Operations) as a story · 10 points

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  7. zdw · 2015-04-07

    Submitted A synthetic theory of monitoring as a story · 6 points

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  8. zdw · 2025-11-07

    Submitted The Desperation of Windows as a story · 3 points

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  9. zdw · 2025-06-03

    Submitted Nostalgia over blogging vs. the current social media hellscape as a story · 3 points

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  10. zdw · 2023-02-22

    Submitted Working for Face-Eating Leopards as a story · 3 points

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  11. zdw · 2016-07-15

    Submitted Database schemas vs. identity as a story · 3 points

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  12. kungfudoi · 2015-11-05

    Submitted The H-1B and I-140 labor-market as a story · 3 points

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  13. zdw · 2025-10-02

    Submitted Paul Cantrell's Treatise Against Efficiency as a story · 2 points

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  14. zdw · 2024-07-12

    Submitted Getting people to think about disaster recovery as a story · 2 points

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  15. zdw · 2022-07-18

    Submitted Confusion on Containers as a story · 2 points

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  16. zdw · 2020-10-04

    Submitted Pre-DevOps Ops teams became cynical assholes as a story · 2 points

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  17. zdw · 2012-09-10

    Submitted Being flooded by non-professionals, a ServerFault problem as a story · 2 points

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  18. iwwr · 2011-01-27

    Submitted The Linux boot process, a chart as a story · 2 points

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  19. zdw · 2023-06-28

    Submitted Monitoring IS a pain, but we do it anyway as a story · 1 points

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  20. mfiguiere · 2022-09-27

    Submitted Hierarchy and the Workplace as a story · 1 points

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  21. zdw · 2022-05-12

    Submitted Centralization of Email as a story · 1 points

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  22. ddtaylor · 2021-03-09

    Submitted Silence is as much social lubrication as lying (2015) as a story · 1 points

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  23. zdw · 2018-06-04

    Submitted Retargeting the StackOverflow Developer survey as a story · 1 points

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  24. rubikscube · 2015-07-02

    Submitted The culture-shift of moving to public cloud as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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