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The Rattlin' Blog

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The Rattlin' Blog is a personal blog at rattlin.blog about programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Simple TUIs with Babashka and Gum”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

Only one comment, which links a post about Babashka and reacts to it without judging the writing. HN readers mostly point to the post as a reference for Babashka.

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.

Now in that blog there was...

Most-linked posts?

  1. Simple TUIs with Babashka and Gum
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Strokes chin inquisitively in Babashka... hmmm... Edit: Heh... https://rattlin.blog/bbgum.html

    Comment linking /bbgum.html

    on “2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal”
  2. Submitted Simple TUIs with Babashka and Gum as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Simple TUIs with Babashka and Gum as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Simple TUIs with Babashka and Gum as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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