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Zack Rusin

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Zack Rusin's personal blog at zrusin.blogspot.com covers programming and games. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Git cheat sheet”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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2007–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Zack Rusin's 2007 Git cheat sheet, which they call the original and a useful printable reference with a state diagram of commit stages. Another link cites a post on stencil-buffer polygon drawing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Git cheat sheet
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2007-09-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html is the classic

    Comment linking /2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html

    on “Git Cheatsheet (Visualization)”
  2. Submitted OpenGL and Direct3D crazy GUI debugger via APITrace as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. AceJohnny2 · 2016-12-14Recommends
    My favourite remains Zack Rusin's, from 9 years ago. The state graph was pretty useful as I was learning: http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html

    Comment linking /2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html

    on “Git Cheat Sheet”
  4. Submitted Git cheat sheet as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. js2 · 2010-11-03Recommends
    I think this is the "original" git cheat sheet (at least, the first one I saw) - http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html Also, it won't blind you. :-) More at http://help.github.com/git-cheat-sheets/

    Comment linking /2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html

    on “Starting with Git: Cheat Sheet”
  6. Submitted 2D musings as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Using stencil buffer to draw polygons without tesselation seems to be one of those folklores that is not widely known. I learned about it some years ago here: http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2006/07/hardware-accelerated-poly...

    Comment linking /2006/07/hardware-accelerated-polygon-rendering.html

    on “Ejecta – A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas and Audio Implementation for iOS”
  8. Submitted Qt for mozilla/firefox as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. AceJohnny2 · 2015-12-05Recommends
    I really like this one by Zack Rusin from 2007: http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html In nice printable format with a sort of "state diagram" for commits (workspace <-> index <-> local commit <-> remote commit)

    Comment linking /2007/09/git-cheat-sheet.html

    on “Git Cheat Sheet”

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