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The Technical Blog of James
Personal blog · ttboj.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
The Technical Blog of James is a personal blog at ttboj.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Next generation config mgmt”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's write-up on switchd, an OpenFlow implementation for OpenBSD, as a companion to a presentation on it, aimed at readers without a low-level networking background.
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.
Technical articles, writeups and discussion!
Most-linked posts?
- Next generation config mgmt4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-01-18
- Automatic grouping in mgmt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-30
What Hacker News says?
I'm a big fan of "The Technical Blog of James" https://ttboj.wordpress.com/ but I'm pretty biased. Check it out and LMK!
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on “Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?”Submitted Show HN: Hacking airplane headphones as a story · 146 points
HN discussionThe Technical Blog of James https://ttboj.wordpress.com/ Source: Author
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted Matching arbitrary URLs to custom Firefox profiles as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI didn't understand the motivations of virtual ethernet right away but this presentation piqued my interest. If you are (like me) and not a low-level networking person, I found this write-up on switchd to be an good compliment to this presentation: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/tag/switchd/
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on “Switchd – An OpenFlow implementation for OpenBSD [pdf]”Submitted Next generation config mgmt as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAnd now I've just published the third article: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/automatic-grouping-in... /me exhausted, night!
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on “Show HN: Next generation configuration mgmt”Submitted Show HN: Send/Recv in mgmt (automation tool) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf anyone is interested in continuing the story, I have a follow blog post here: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/automatic-edges-in-mg... and a third about the newest major feature is coming shortly. Feedback welcome please!
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on “Show HN: Next generation configuration mgmt”Submitted Show HN: Next generation configuration mgmt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Declarative vs. Imperative paradigms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic grouping in mgmt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scathing review of the Lenovo X240 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A revisionist history of configuration management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Remote execution in mgmt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next generation configuration mgmt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next generation configuration management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next generation configuration mgmt as a story · 1 points
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