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Tav's Blog

Personal blog · tav.espians.com · on HN as tavprogrammingeconomics

Tav's Blog is a personal blog at tav.espians.com about programming and economics. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.

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18mentions?
6HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2009

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

Why HN links it

Linked as a source on Fabric, the Python deployment tool, in a Show HN thread about a Rails and Twilio project. The post covers Fabric with a cleaner API, and the commenter says Fabric is turning out well.

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.

I'm Tav, a 29-year old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.

The author on HN?

tav · 1,544 karma · member since 2008

Call me Tav. I'm a hacker from London who works on decentralised systems. Feel free to contact me for help/advice or just for a friendly chat: tav@espians.com http://tav.espians.com https://twitter.com/tav All content produced by me on HN is dedicated to the Public Domain: * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Use it however you want :) [ my public key: https://keybase.io/tav; my proof: https://keybase.io/tav/sigs/mWU8_7ohyVhbWe4CC4-BULZt9ko__aSLRFa1T-GJ5xc ]

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-22
  2. A Challenge To Break Python Security
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. For anyone who wants this for themselves, here's a Python script [0] that generates similar output [1]. It doesn't have the nice Google Cache feature from ajani's version, but it does produce static HTML which some may prefer. [0] https://gist.github.com/tav/5545779 [1] http://tav.espians.com/temp/hacker-news-top-1000.html

    Comment linking /temp/hacker-news-top-1000.html

    on “Hacker News All-Time Top Links ”
  2. Submitted Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment as a story · 183 points

    HN discussion
  3. Thank you for the compliment — I was going to write an article a few weeks ago, but ended up spending the evening redesigning the blog instead: http://tav.espians.com/new-site-design-for-2011.html Procrastination has its benefits I guess, heh. If you fancy them, the css/templates are in https://github.com/tav/blog and the site is run using yatiblog — https://github.com/tav/ampify/blob/master/src/pyutil/yatiblo... —…

    Comment linking /new-site-design-for-2011.html

    on “Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment”
  4. Submitted OAuth 3.0: the sane and simple way as a story · 144 points

    HN discussion
  5. Fabric is turning out to be really nice. There are some new features that are should be merged into the project provided from here: http://tav.espians.com/fabric-python-with-cleaner-api-and-pa...

    Comment linking /fabric-python-with-cleaner-api-and-parallel-deployment-support.html

    on “Show HN: Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio”
  6. Submitted Anyone Interested in Articles on Using PyPy to Create New Languages? as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why Bitcoin Will Fail As A Currency as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Ciao Python, Hola Go as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Ruby-style Blocks in Python as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Features To Make GitHub An Awesome Platform as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Will you peerfund my crazily ambitious work? as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Sanitising JSON callback identifiers for security — a must for web developers as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted A Challenge To Break Python Security as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted A challenge to break a simple Python sandbox [2009] as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Why stories like Egypt are fit for HN as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Creative Commons Unlicense and Reflections of a Public Domain Advocate as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Top Life Tips: #10 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Update on Securing the Python Interpreter (Capabilities) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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