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Welcome to purpleidea.com on purpleidea.com is a personal blog at purpleidea.com about programming and systems. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “The Mgmt configuration management language”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link purpleidea.com for posts on the mgmt configuration tool and its design, plus a GNOME terminal hyperlink tip. Commenters mostly cite or point to these posts rather than judge them.
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?
- The Mgmt configuration management language4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-02-23
- Inexpensive Dynamic DNS over IRC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-01
- Hyperlinks in Gnome terminal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-30
- A new provisioning tool built with mgmt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-27
What Hacker News says?
I always pondered about everything in our universe getting swallowed up continuously merging black holes until all of a sudden "everything" is "in" the black hole and then suddenly that's your big bang, and everything starts all over. I don't have the Ph.D physics/maths skills to work out the plausibility of any of that (or variations on that) but I've always felt I've been good at coming up with ideas. Any physicis…
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on “Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole”Submitted The Mgmt configuration management language as a story · 51 points
HN discussionMy personal website: https://purpleidea.com/ has been DMCA'ed by some scammer and I still haven't gotten it back out. Google ignores the counter notices, and who knows where else the scammer (masquerading as a legitimate takedown company) has sent notices. Bing and DDG (same basically) have all delisted it.
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on “Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished”Submitted Hyperlinks in Gnome terminal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://purpleidea.com/blog/ :)
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on “Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?”Submitted A new provisioning tool built with mgmt as a story · 3 points
HN discussiongreat project, for others here’s the best problem/solution overview i could find - https://purpleidea.com/blog/2018/02/05/mgmt-configuration-la...
Comment linking /blog/2018/02/05/mgmt-configuration-language/
on “UIs are streaming DAGs [video]”Submitted Mgmt – Language and tool for safe systems configuration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Canada Remote: Yes, I've been 100% remote since before COVID. Technologies: golang and https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Résumé/CV: https://purpleidea.com/ Email: https://purpleidea.com/contact/ Only looking for work involving mgmt config automation projects right now. If you're interested, feel free to let me know. I can build you something very impressive.
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)”Submitted Running `Make` from Anywhere in the Subdirs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA sibling comment already mentions Pulumi. There is also mgmt, which is a statically-typed, functional, and reactive configuration language. In mgmt the configuration is a function of the system's state. Configuration is automatically recomputed and reapplied when the relevant state changes. This is something I have on many occasions wanted in a configuration management tool. For an introduction to how it works you…
Comment linking /blog/2018/02/05/mgmt-configuration-language/
on “Show HN: Ansible Crash Course”Submitted Show HN: A new provisioning tool built with mgmt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Technical Blog of James: https://purpleidea.com/ aka https://purpleidea.com/blog/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Inexpensive Dynamic DNS over IRC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Technical Blog of James https://purpleidea.com/blog/ Random tech stuff and of course my work on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Inexpensive Dynamic DNS over IRC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNeat! Here’s a blog post with more details https://purpleidea.com/blog/2018/06/29/hyperlinks-in-gnome-t...
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on “Drag and Drop from Terminal”Submitted Getting USB car audio working in a 2013 Honda Civic EX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing the Mgmt Configuration Language as a story · 1 points
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