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Tookmund
Personal blog · tookmund.comprogrammingsystems
Tookmund is a personal blog at tookmund.com about programming and systems. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Roman Finger Counting”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Tookmund's personal blog about software, covering topics like the Linux audio stack, Debian's lack of AAC codec support, and the history of Unix dot files. Comments mainly link to or reference its posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A place for my random thoughts about software
Most-linked posts?
- Roman Finger Counting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-14
- AAC and Debian2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-25
- A Lesson in Shortcuts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-30
What Hacker News says?
Weird metaphor, right? We're probably missing context for that one. My theory is that it boils down to "don't nickel and dime or be overly concerned with recording the amount of your charitable giving" The reason I think that, is because in ancient Roman times they had a way of counting on your fingers where you could count up to 100 on your left hand alone (then you could use your right hand after that for even lar…
Comment linking /2020/05/roman-finger-counting
on “Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”Submitted The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash as a story · 213 points
HN discussionDebian does not ship the AAC codec, due to legal quagmire surrounding the necessary code. The same probably goes for Ubuntu. That might be the cause of at least some of your problems. https://tookmund.com/2024/02/aac-and-debian
Comment linking /2024/02/aac-and-debian
on “The Linux audio stack demystified”Submitted Linux's Bedtime Routine as a story · 206 points
HN discussionDoes it, though? Aren't dot files just pretending to be hidden due to a bug in early Unix? Unix v1 had a flat filesystem. Unix v2 added subdirectories. As an implementation detail, each directory contained two magic files, `.` for "this directory" and `..` for "the parent directory". The command to list files was sloppily coded to skip them. If a name started with a dot, it was skipped. Hey presto! Unix 2 had a way…
Comment linking /2022/03/rob-pike-shortcuts
on “$Home, Not So Sweet $Home”Submitted Roman Finger Counting as a story · 180 points
HN discussionSubmitted AAC and Debian as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Lesson in Shortcuts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux Hibernation Documentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Regular Reboots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PGP Clean Room Beta as a story · 1 points
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