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unethicalblogger.com is a personal blog at unethicalblogger.com about programming and writing. Since 2008, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Poorly chosen Ruby gem names”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

20mentions?
18HN people?
2008–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on choosing Git, including a rebuttal to a critique of that choice, and a post on poorly chosen gems. The comments do not judge the quality of the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Poorly chosen Ruby gem names
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-10
  2. The scratchiest neckbeard, or FreeBSD on my Thinkpad X200
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. I don't think so, no. A launchd port to FreeBSD is a project that has been hanging around and attempted multiple times by various parties with differing success (I linked to a working, though early launchd_xml port below). This one in particular is the openlaunchd port first started by R. Tyler back in 2005 when he was a GSoC student, but was abandoned and restarted 8 years later in 2013, announced here: http://unet…

    Comment linking /2013/12/03/scratchiest-neckbeard-freebsd-x200.html

    on “Open Launchd”
  2. Submitted GNU/Parallel changed my life as a story · 76 points

    HN discussion
  3. Comment from the author: > chances are you're reading the post out of a larger context to what I've written about. Check out Why we chose Git, a rebuttal. ( http://unethicalblogger.com/posts/2008/11/why_we_chose_git_a... )

    Comment linking /posts/2008/11/why_we_chose_git_a_rebuttal

    on “I'm using Git because it makes me feel cool”
  4. Submitted I'm using Git because it makes me feel cool as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://unethicalblogger.com/2011/11/13/ten-poorly-chosen-gem...

    Comment linking /2011/11/13/ten-poorly-chosen-gem-names.html

    on “Open source cloud platform from Yandex (support for Docker is announced)”
  6. Submitted Delightfully Wrong About Git as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why we chose Git, a rebuttal as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Poorly chosen Ruby gem names as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Code Review With Gerrit, a Mostly Visual Guide as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The scratchiest neckbeard, or FreeBSD on my Thinkpad X200 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Ada? Surely you jest Mr. Pythonman [2010] as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Real world use of XSRF/CSRF against a web interface to IRC as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Proposal: Imuse, an IMAP-capable FUSE filesystem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Choose Happiness as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted 10 poorly chosen Ruby gem names as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted X is business value as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted On GitHub and how I came to write the fastest Python JSON module in town as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted V8 and FastCGI, Exploring an Idea as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Git integration with Hudson and Trac as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Hudson (test automation framework for websites) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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