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William Blankenship
Personal blog · retrohacker.substack.comprogrammingcareersystems
William Blankenship's personal blog at retrohacker.substack.com covers programming, career and systems. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on printing with Linux, including a method of printing with netcat without CUPS. The comments are a bare link and a cited reference to that post.
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.
Software Engineering. Launched 5 years ago.
Most-linked posts?
- Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-08-03
What Hacker News says?
You can even do this with network printers, netcat a pdf to the open port and it will print. https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-ne...
Comment linking /p/bye-cups-printing-with-netcat
on “Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer”Submitted Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat as a story · 417 points
HN discussionObligatory: https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-ne...
Comment linking /p/bye-cups-printing-with-netcat
on “The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering”Submitted Bye CUPS: Printing with netcat as a story · 4 points
HN discussion4th Tip for Printing with Linux: Printing with netcat (without CUPS).[0,1,2] [0] https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-ne... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054789 [2] https://www.opennet.ru/tips/3189_print_cups_netcat.shtml
Comment linking /p/bye-cups-printing-with-netcat
on “3 Tips for Printing with Linux”Submitted Cowpaths vs. Cargo-Culting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a GraphQL Service and Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussion