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Trevor Brown
Personal blog · stratus3d.com/blog · on HN as Stratus3Dprogrammingweb
Trevor Brown writes Stratus3D, a personal blog at stratus3d.com about programming and web. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Social Media Is Not Important”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on asdf performance and on installing Erlang on OS X. The linked posts cover developer tooling and version management.
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.
Stratus3D is a blog on software engineering, programming, and web development, by Trevor Brown.
Most-linked posts?
- Social Media Is Not Important2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-25
- Asdf Performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-12
- Sliding Window Data Store in Erlang2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-15
- What I Learned Building a CLI App in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-18
What Hacker News says?
There was a recent post about asdf performance from the maintainer that is quite illuminating: http://stratus3d.com/blog/2022/08/11/asdf-performance/
Comment linking /blog/2022/08/11/asdf-performance/
on “Asdf – language tool version manager”Submitted Asdf Performance as a story · 176 points
HN discussionInteresting, I'll try it out. On Linux I used the 'kerl' script to easily switch between installations: https://github.com/kerl/kerl Seems like it works on OS X too: http://stratus3d.com/blog/2014/10/24/install-erlang-16-on-ma...
Comment linking /blog/2014/10/24/install-erlang-16-on-mac-osx-10-dot-9-with-kerl/
on “Erlang Installer Beta: A Better Way To Use Erlang On OS X”Submitted Guide to Tracing in Erlang as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Let It Crash Philosophy Outside Erlang as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sliding Window Data Store in Erlang as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asdf Version Manager Has Been Re-Written in Golang as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Asdf: The Extendable Version Manager as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Meaning of Dbg Function Names as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Erlang Project Setup with Erlang.mk as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promises in Erlang as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Josephus Problem in Erlang as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance of Elixir's System.get_env/0 Function as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media Is Not Important as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance of Elixir's Access Behavior as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to Lua as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned Building a CLI App in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Elixir’s `With` as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pattern Matching versus Elixir's Access Behavior as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OTP Cheatsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sliding Window Data Store in Erlang (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci Algorithms in Elixir as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vagrant for Erlang Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extensible Rails 4 Form Object Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guide to Tracing in Erlang (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned Building a CLI App in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book on Code Reviews as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Debugging of Memory Leaks in Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media Is Not Important as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci Algorithms in Elixir as a story · 1 points
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