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Xetera's Blog
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Xetera's Blog is a personal blog at xetera.dev about programming and web. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Building a Scalable Scraper in Rust”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post arguing that photographic gear matters, which they compare to whether programming languages matter. The only comment discusses the analogy and does not judge the post itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm Xetera from The Programmer's Hangout. I use code to fix problems in my life and I write about those experiences.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a Scalable Scraper in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04
What Hacker News says?
Saying that gear doesn't matter is like old fogey programmers saying that programming languages don't matter. A good programmer can wrangle code in anything reasonably practical. And I say that as one of those old fogey programmers. I mean c'mon, look at Golang. It is not a good language[0][1]. And yet, folks built k8s with it, and many other things. It's like that with photographic gear too. Just like the best came…
Comment linking /thoughts-on-go/
on “They say that gear doesn’t matter, but it does”Submitted Building a Scalable Scraper in Rust as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Building a Scalable (KPop Image) Scraper as a story · 1 points
HN discussion