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Tall, Snarky Canadian on Svbtle

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Tall, Snarky Canadian on Svbtle is a personal blog at nothingbutsnark.svbtle.com about programming and career. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Why I don’t worry about Python losing users”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
11HN people?
2014–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

Posts about the author's blog moving between platforms, including from Medium and Svbtle to a self-hosted site. One commenter links a chain of these moves while tracking down a Python blog.

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.

Tall, Snarky Canadian | Python core developer. Works at Microsoft (Azure Data Science Tools).

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I don’t worry about Python losing users
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-11
  2. Python vs. Go
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-18
  3. Porting to Python 3 is like “eating your vegetables”
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Funnily enough, an hour or so ago I was trying to track down a Python blog I used to enjoy and went on a "This blog has moved merry-go-round... http://sayspy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/moving-this-blog-to-med... https://medium.com/coder-who-says-py/i-have-moved-over-to-sv... https://nothingbutsnark.svbtle.com/moving-the-blog-to-silvrb... And eventually to https://snarky.ca

    Comment linking /moving-the-blog-to-silvrback

    on “Why we transitioned from Medium back to our own blog”
  2. Submitted Why I don’t worry about Python losing users as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Python vs. Go as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted How to argue for Python’s use as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Porting to Python 3 is like “eating your vegetables” as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why I don’t worry about Python losing users as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How keep Python 3 moving forward as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Porting to Python 3 is like “eating your vegetables” as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Porting to Python 3 Is Like Eating Your Vegetables as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Why I don’t worry about Python losing users as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Arguing for pythons case as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted What I would buy my family for Xmas as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Security of cash vs. bank accounts vs. Bitcoin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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