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techno-weenie.net is a personal blog at techno-weenie.net about programming and web. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Ending the mass assignment party”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
12HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a 2008 post announcing calendar-about-nothing, a Seinfeld-style calendar that tracks open source contributions. The comments only cite it as background and do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ending the mass assignment party
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Two of the github guys: kneath and technoweenie I believe, implemented exactly this for measuring contributions to open source projects. site: http://calendaraboutnothing.com/ blog post announcing it: http://techno-weenie.net/2008/10/6/calendar-about-nothing/

    Comment linking /2008/10/6/calendar-about-nothing/

    on “Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret”
  2. Submitted IE9 deletes stuff as a story · 169 points

    HN discussion
  3. Another clarification: He wasn't making noises for a long time with _GitHub_ and being ignored. His support responses were replied to nearly immediately (except where the timezone differences came into play). We take security reports very seriously. We'd have preferred a more responsible disclosure, and I hope he (and others) are more careful about this in the future. Most reporters we get act very responsible, and…

    Comment linking /2012/3/19/ending-the-mass-assignment-party/

    on “#1 CSRF Is A Vulnerability In All Browsers”
  4. Submitted Reliable ZeroMQ Pub Sub as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Node NPM rocks as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted ZeroMQ Pub Sub: How does it work? as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Change Hue bulb color based on current weather as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted My PUT Requests Bug Me as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Get your Github news feed in Tweetie as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Ending the mass assignment party as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Nub Nub: PubSubHubbub protocol implementation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Track user locations with Node.js and Redis as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The Journey for Large Files on GitHub as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted ZeroMQ Basics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Protocol Buffers with Riak for Node.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Dealing with $LOAD_PATH in Ruby properly as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Node.js For My Tiny Ruby Brain as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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