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Tarn Barford

Personal blog · tarnbarford.net/journalprogrammingsystems

Tarn Barford's personal blog at tarnbarford.net covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2012–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Linked as a related resource alongside other guides on building NixOS VM images (qcow2) with flakes for libvirt, QEMU and KVM. The comment does not judge the writing.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Related: Building NixOS qcow2 images with flakes: https://tarnbarford.net/journal/building-nixos-qcow2-images-... Build a bare bones bootable nixos qcow2 image suitable for running with libvirt/qemu/kvm: https://gist.github.com/tarnacious/f9674436fff0efeb4bb6585c7... A Journey into Nix and NixOS (Building a QEMU image): https://williamvds.me/blog/journey-into-nix/#:~:text=Buildin... Setting up qemu VM using nix flak…

    Comment linking /journal/building-nixos-qcow2-images-with-flakes/

    on “NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS”
  2. Submitted Vim Slime: A vim plugin to give you some slime. (Emacs) as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How I delivered a million spam emails as a story · 2 points

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