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Very Good Software, Not Virus
Personal blog · blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ruprogrammingsystems
Very Good Software, Not Virus is a personal blog at blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru about programming and systems. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Go's Error Handling Is Perfect”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, 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 a comparison of DigitalOcean's App platform with Google Cloud offerings, and for a post titled "Go's Error Handling Is Perfect, Actually" about Go error handling.
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?
- Go's Error Handling Is Perfect4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-04-04
- Greener Cloud Pastures3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-26
- Bring Your Own Interface2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-04
- Baby’s First AWS Deployment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-28
What Hacker News says?
There is some comparison of DO's App platform and Google's Cloud offerings here if you are interested (not my blog, just found it helpful: https://blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru/posts/greener-cloud... )
Comment linking /posts/greener-cloud-pastures/
on “Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback”Submitted How I write unit tests in Go as a story · 67 points
HN discussion"Go’s Error Handling Is Perfect, Actually" [1] https://blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru/posts/errors-in-go/
Comment linking /posts/errors-in-go/
on “Rust error handling”Submitted Go's Error Handling Is Perfect as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go's Error Handling Is Perfect as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go's Error Handling Is Perfect, Actually as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bring Your Own Interface as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Baby’s First AWS Deployment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Baby's First AWS Deployment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preventing Problems with Generated Files as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sylvia's Law as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bring Your Own Interface as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greener Cloud Pastures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greener Cloud Pastures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Porktrack: I turned a goofy idea into a real career as a story · 1 points
HN discussion