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WEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Blog
Personal blog · grep.be/blogprogrammingsystemsculture
WEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Blog is a personal blog at grep.be about programming, systems and culture. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Systemd, Devuan, and Debian”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Debian ports to unusual architectures, including m68k and the Debian riscv64 port, and on running Linux through the ARAnyM Atari emulator. Linked as a source in a thread on the riscv64 port history.
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?
- Systemd, Devuan, and Debian2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-12
What Hacker News says?
One theory I had was that blogrolls were common previously and allowed for cluster navigation. My friends and I certainly had these pointing to each other because why wouldn't you? The big bloggers on HN I see are tptacek, rachelbythebay, and simonwillison and none of them have a blogroll. General wisdom in website SEO etc. is to keep the user on your page and not send them elsewhere and I thought that perhaps many…
Comment linking /blog/
on “The effects of algorithms on the public discourse”Submitted MySQL is a toy as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI suspected that it had something to do with ColdFire. It seems that was partly true, but another interesting factor was apparently ARAnyM (an Atari 68k ST/TT/Falcon emulator) which can conveniently run a Linux system: https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/debian/m68k/arrakis/
Comment linking /blog/en/computer/debian/m68k/arrakis/
on “Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019”Submitted Why Windows is not ready for general usage as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Google as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted C11 function overloading as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading a Windows 10 VM to Windows 11 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd, Devuan, and Debian as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patching Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of the Belgian electronic ID card (eID) on RHEL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systemd, Devuan, and Debian as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webserver certificate authentication with intermediate CAs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Noun – ter·ror·ism – \ˈter-ər-ˌi-zəm\ – no plural as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HOWTO: create a PXE netboot debian-installer image with firmware files as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
