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xkyle.com
Personal blog · xkyle.comprogrammingsystems
xkyle.com is a personal blog at xkyle.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Being a Great Engineering Mentor”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link xkyle.com for technical write-ups: a graphviz visualisation of AWS cross-AZ latency, a Verizon Fios WiFi key calculator, and a comparison of image-to-ASCII terminal tools.
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?
- Being a Great Engineering Mentor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-14
- The Evolution of Distributed Systems Management2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-04
What Hacker News says?
I did a graphviz visualization of cross-az latency for all azs here https://xkyle.com/Measuring-AWS-Region-and-AZ-Latency/ (gosh, 4 years old now)
Comment linking /Measuring-AWS-Region-and-AZ-Latency/
on “AWS data center latencies, visualized”Submitted Graph everything with Graphite as a story · 93 points
HN discussionverizon just recently stopped defaulting the wep key to a very simple hash derived from the ssid and mac.[0][1] [0]: https://www.xkyle.com/verizon-fios-wireless-key-calculator/ [1]: https://aruljohn.com/fios/
Comment linking /verizon-fios-wireless-key-calculator/
on “Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door?”Submitted Advancing the State of the Art of Container Storage with Titus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have a comparison of these tools going here: http://www.xkyle.com/a-comparison-of-image-to-ascii-conversi... I can add this to the list, but it looks like it does not take advantage of the half-block trick to double the effective vertical resolution. (like other tools like img2xterm)
Comment linking /a-comparison-of-image-to-ascii-conversion-tools/
on “Show HN: Display images in the terminal”Submitted Being a Great Engineering Mentor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Evolution of Distributed Systems Management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Incidental Complexity of Kubernetes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being a Great Engineering Mentor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The evolution of distributed systems management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Intel – My Favorite Commands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Assisted Jenga (or tension tower) as a story · 2 points
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