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tag1consulting.com is the company blog at tag1consulting.com, writing about programming, web and business. Since 2009, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tag1consulting.com mainly for its interviews with Linus Torvalds on Linux, Git, editors and filesystems, and also for posts on load testing with Goose and real-time collaboration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- 30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds12 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2021-04-28
- Real Life Goose Load Testing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-16
- Saving time by switching users: Async support in Goose2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-03
What Hacker News says?
He doesn't. Linus uses MicroEMACS [0], which is an entirely different editor that uses emacs bindings. It's not the lisp vm that incidentally happens to edit code that GNU Emacs is. Or, as he puts it [1]: > I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. [0]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs [1]: https://www.tag1consul…
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on “Sunsetting Atom”Submitted 30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds as a story · 155 points
HN discussionIn the era when system research is dying [1], the only saving graces are the Nix/Guix for OS management improvement and perhaps eBPF for OS performance enhancement. The Winix OS is a breath of fresh air in term of potential OS directions. Like they have always said, timing is everything and probably this is the project similar to Apple's Newton project that have many goods in it but just born several years too early…
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on “I spent 5 years writing my own operating system”Submitted Managing SELinux with Puppet as a story · 83 points
HN discussionThis is by far the most informative article coming from The Register, I'd had expected this article coming from AnandTech or similar news outlets. Back in last year 2021, Linus was asked what is the most special about Linux in an interview, and he pointed to the Linux File System as the fastest in the business [1]. Now imagine an OS (Linux or not) having a first class in-memory file system, and it will blows away an…
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on “The end of Optane is bad news”Submitted Part 2 of Interview with Linus Torvalds as a story · 69 points
HN discussionHe said he might switch to nano. It's not currently his editor of choice (unless there's something more recent). If I recall correctly he has been using uEmacs/PK ( https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs ). > I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'. https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
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on “GNU nano is my editor of choice”Submitted An Interview with Linus Torvalds on Linux and Git as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFun facts, back in 2021 Linus was asked what is the most special about Linux in an interview for 30 years of Linux, and he pointed to the Linux File System as the fastest in the business [1]. [1] 30 Years of Linux: An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git - Part 1: https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
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on “50 Years in Filesystems: 1984”Submitted Building offline-first applications with Yjs: How Yjs supports offline editing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe article talks about Torvalds disliking CVS and Subversion but never making himself clear about the reasons, and later suggests that the most important "not fully articulated" reason was speed. But I think a more important reason for him was that he felt that CVS and SVN implicitly came with a development model where a small group of people has official commit privileges, while he very strongly wants a model with…
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on “A Git Origin Story (2018)”Submitted On 20 Years of Drupal – An Interview with Robert Douglass – Tag1 TeamTalk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are a few of those frameworks. The first one that comes to mind is YJS here is a getting started[1]. 1. https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/deep-dive-real-time-coll...
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on “Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser”Submitted A Goose in the Clouds: Load Testing at Scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI do know this for sure: 'So it's not just "better", it's "Better" with a capital 'B'. Nothing else out there comes even close . The Linux dcache is simply in a class all its own.' -Linus Torvalds https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds... I do realize that the dcache is not a direct relation to the scheduler (but will certainly impact it), but I trust that performance enthusiasts will go to gre…
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on “The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (2016)”Submitted An Interview with Linus Torvalds: Open-Source and Beyond – Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLinus Torvalds talks about taste in https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds... I did maintain Git for a few months, and the thing that made me ask Junio if he wanted to be the maintainer is that very-hard-to-describe notion of "good taste". I don't really have a better description for it: programming is about solving technical problems, but how you solve them, and how you think about them is imp…
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on “Taste vs. Skills”Submitted Goose Attack: A Locust-Inspired Load Testing Tool in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLinus Torvalds said he might switch to nano for his daily driver[0] >[Text editing is] all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although…
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on “Nano 5.7”Submitted Core Confidential with Angie Byron: On 15 Years of Drupal Contribution – Pt. 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the interview you are referring to https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds... in case anyone was curious like I was.
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on “Nano 5.7”Submitted Documentation as code: A Linting How To – The Vale Linter in action (demo)-Pt. 3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHow does mg compare with MicroEMACS (famously used by Linus Torvalds [1])? [1] https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
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on “Joining the Church of Emacs”Submitted Tag1 TeamTalk: Documentation as Code: A Linting How To – What, Why, and How? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTag1 Consulting has been working on a locust-inspired implementation in Rust for some time now, called Goose [1]. They blog about their work regularly.[2] Has anyone given it a try? I'm not affiliated with them but appreciate the open source effort. [1] https://github.com/tag1consulting/goose [2] https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/real-life-goose-load-tes...
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on “Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool”Submitted Simplifying your workflow: Getting started with DDEV as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPart 1: https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26969595
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on “Part 2 of Interview with Linus Torvalds”Submitted Scaling teams: four rules for faster and safer development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAh, yes, my mistake, he was only thinking of switching to nano: > And it's all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although I suspect I…
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on “Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom”Submitted Building offline-first apps with Yjs: Garbage collection and content revisioning as a story · 2 points
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