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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.

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35mentions?
12HN people?
2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

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.

The author on HN?

Stratus3D · 90 karma · member since 2014

Javascript, Ruby, Erlang & Elixir Programmer. Web Developer. http://Stratus3D.com/ @Stratus3D

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Social Media Is Not Important
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-25
  2. Asdf Performance
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-12
  3. Sliding Window Data Store in Erlang
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-15
  4. What I Learned Building a CLI App in Rust
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Asdf Performance as a story · 176 points

    HN discussion
  3. Interesting, 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”
  4. Submitted Guide to Tracing in Erlang as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Let It Crash Philosophy Outside Erlang as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Sliding Window Data Store in Erlang as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Asdf Version Manager Has Been Re-Written in Golang as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Introducing Asdf: The Extendable Version Manager as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Meaning of Dbg Function Names as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Erlang Project Setup with Erlang.mk as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Promises in Erlang as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Josephus Problem in Erlang as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Performance of Elixir's System.get_env/0 Function as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Social Media Is Not Important as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Performance of Elixir's Access Behavior as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Introduction to Lua as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted What I Learned Building a CLI App in Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Problem with Elixir’s `With` as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Pattern Matching versus Elixir's Access Behavior as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted OTP Cheatsheet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Sliding Window Data Store in Erlang (2015) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Fibonacci Algorithms in Elixir as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Vagrant for Erlang Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Extensible Rails 4 Form Object Design as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Guide to Tracing in Erlang (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted What I Learned Building a CLI App in Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Book on Code Reviews as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Effective Debugging of Memory Leaks in Ruby as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Social Media Is Not Important as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Fibonacci Algorithms in Elixir as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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