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trofi
Personal blog · trofi.github.ioprogrammingsystems
trofi is a personal blog at trofi.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2017, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “New make --shuffle mode (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link trofi's posts as practical Linux setup guides, such as a how-to for running Nix on Gentoo. The only comment is a bare link to that guide.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- New make --shuffle mode (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-17
- SSH over HTTPS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-31
What Hacker News says?
https://trofi.github.io/posts/196-nix-on-gentoo-howto.html for gentoo, but https://nixos.org/download.html for any linux, AFAIK
Comment linking /posts/196-nix-on-gentoo-howto.html
on “Docker is deleting Open Source images - here is what you need to know”Submitted SSH over HTTPS as a story · 426 points
HN discussionSubmitted GCC Profiler Internals as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted New make --shuffle mode (2022) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fuzzing Duperemove as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GCC 10 in Gentoo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do shared library collisions break? (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GNU make 4.4 adds --shuffle to help find parallel build issues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nixpkgs Bootstrap Intro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another Memory Corruption Case as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maximum argument count on Linux and in GCC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do shared library collisions break? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SSH over HTTPS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Wine (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signed char or unsigned char? as a story · 1 points
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