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UnixDaemon: In search of (a) life

Personal blog · unixdaemon.netsystemsprogramming

UnixDaemon: In search of (a) life is a personal blog at unixdaemon.net about systems and programming. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
9HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link UnixDaemon for DevOps writing, including a post on testing tools that compares Goss with serverspec. One commenter lists it among devops blogs they follow.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-24
  2. Non-intuitive downtime and possibly not lost sales
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-29
  3. Contaminate AWS instances on ssh login
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. sciurus · 2012-05-17
    Here's a dump of blogs I follow that have lots of devops-oriented contents. http://www.kartar.net/ http://www.kitchensoap.com/ http://www.masterzen.fr/ http://blog.nistu.de/ http://www.jedi.be/blog/ http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/ http://www.unixdaemon.net/ http://www.rottenbytes.info/ http://blog.lusis.org/ http://bitfieldconsulting.com/ http://agilesysadmin.net/

    Comment linking /

    on “DevOps Reading List: 10 Books & Blogs You Should Read”
  2. vinnyglennon · 2020-08-25

    Submitted Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  3. aelsabbahy · 2015-10-22Recommends
    This blog post explains the difference between goss and serverspec better than I did: http://www.unixdaemon.net/tools/testing-with-goss.html

    Comment linking /tools/testing-with-goss.html

    on “Show HN: Goss – A serverspec-like tool written in go”
  4. kiyanwang · 2016-04-04

    Submitted Contaminate AWS instances on ssh login as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. wallflower · 2016-04-05

    Submitted Contaminate AWS instances on ssh login as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. fanf2 · 2026-01-25

    Submitted Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. kiyanwang · 2020-08-24

    Submitted Incident updates, interruptions and the 30 minute window as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. kiyanwang · 2018-08-05

    Submitted Pre-commit hooks and terraform- a safety net for your repositories as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. zdw · 2021-01-11

    Submitted Things every SRE should know – Part 01 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. leejo · 2017-09-29

    Submitted Job applications and GitHub profile oddities as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. kiyanwang · 2017-06-05

    Submitted Non-intuitive downtime and possibly not lost sales as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. thwarted · 2017-05-29

    Submitted Non-intuitive downtime and possibly not lost sales as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. sciurus · 2011-06-21

    Submitted Simple Puppet module grepper as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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