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Tom Ups

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Tom Ups's personal blog at tomups.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Worktrees: Git's best kept secret (and why you should use them)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2025–2025first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

Only one comment links here, and it does not discuss the writing. It mentions a t3.gg video about Convex and AI coding, and running multiple AIs in parallel in a dev workflow.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Worktrees: Git's best kept secret (and why you should use them)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. I think some of this might come down to stack as well. I watched a t3.gg video[1] recently about Convex[2] and how the nature of it leads to the AI getting it right first time more often. I've been playing around with it the last few days and I think I agree with him. I think the dev workflow is going to fundamentally change because to maximise productivity out of this you need to get multiple AIs working in paralle…

    Comment linking /posts/git-worktrees/

    on “GPT-5 for Developers”
  2. Submitted Worktrees: Git's best kept secret (and why you should use them) as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Swimming and Audiobooks as a story · 4 points

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