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Joey Hess
Personal blog · joeyh.name · on HN as joeyhprogrammingsystems
Joey Hess's personal blog at joeyh.name covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 176 different Hacker News readers have linked it 395 times, most often “Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joey Hess's blog for his git-annex and moreutils tooling and his off-grid computing posts. Commenters cite it on git repository safety, databranches and Unix pipe tools, and as an example of frugal, self-reliant living.
- Recommended for · 6 comments
- One commenter calls a git databranches article good; others name the blog one they enjoy reading or a good place to start.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 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?
- Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago43 people · 48 mentions · first linked 2014-02-18
- Moreutils10 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2012-06-24
- /blog/entry/notes_for_a_caretaker/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-08-15
- /offgrid/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-02-28
- Attribution Armored Code5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-11-21
- Documentation first4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-02-27
- Databranches: using Git as a database (2011)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-05-29
- Making propellor safer with GADTs and type families3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-01-25
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-04-28
- /blog/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-08
What Hacker News says?
Joey Hess raises questions: "What I would ask my lawyers about the new Github TOS' If I were looking over the TOS with my lawyers, I'd ask these questions... 4 License Grant to Us This seems to be saying that I'm granting an additional license to my software to Github. Is that right or does "license grant" have some other legal meaning? If the Free Software license I've already licensed my software under allows for…
Comment linking /blog/entry/what_I_would_ask_my_lawyers_about_the_new_Github_TOS/
on “GitHub Sponsors”Submitted Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago as a story · 612 points
HN discussionThere is also `vidir` which is part of `moreutils`: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Comment linking /code/moreutils/
on “TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem”Submitted Fridge 0.2 as a story · 584 points
HN discussionThat is actually not the case. Say a git server is in the middle of a write to refs/heads/master . You atomically snapshot the FS and then a power outage kills the server. The repository state will have a small chance of lock files that are never removed. Depending on the lock, future writes to a ref or to the repository can fail. Not the worst situation as data lose won't occur but definitely not a stable state. If…
Comment linking /blog/entry/difficulties_in_backing_up_live_git_repositories/
on “GitLab Database Incident – Live Report”Submitted How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to GitHub as a story · 526 points
HN discussionThe remaining hard part is the adapter layer to enable the extra applications such as the issue tracker to use the Git repository for storage. Joey Hess has a good article about Git "databranches" here: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/databranches/
Comment linking /blog/entry/databranches/
on “GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub”Submitted Reflections on Distrusting xz as a story · 286 points
HN discussionhttps://cheapskatesguide.org -- Cheapskate's Guide to Computers and Internet. Low-end and frugal computing in the 21st century. Long, opinionated posts on a pink(!) background. http://ranprieur.com/ -- Ran Prieur. Frugality, societal collapse, "dropping out", and beyond. Has been constantly blogging for ages; it's really interesting to see how his views have changed in time. http://joeyh.name/ -- Joey Hess, former l…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012) as a story · 266 points
HN discussionWhat's an Emacs? Running that command just seems to reduce my disk quota. The functionality you're describing sounds pretty much like vidir (from moreutils[1]), though. [1] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Comment linking /code/moreutils/
on “Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces”Submitted Fridge 0.1 as a story · 257 points
HN discussion> I wasn't familiar with the one that involves brute-forcing it on every login attempt, and I've never heard of it being used in production on a real site (whereas a global shared secret seems to be reasonably common). In case you're interested, that is the same scheme as the one used by JoeyH's keysafe[1]. [1]: http://joeyh.name/code/keysafe/
Comment linking /code/keysafe/
on “Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing”Submitted WASM Wayland Web (WWW) as a story · 254 points
HN discussionLinks for mass moving mentioned in the page: - 2018: https://github.com/lgommans/vinamer - 2017: https://github.com/thameera/vimv - 2017: https://github.com/abaldwin88/roamer - 2006: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ , `vidir`
Comment linking /code/moreutils/
on “Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times”Submitted Cheap DIY solar fence design as a story · 211 points
HN discussionI use curl example.org | vipe | bash - Which opens vim in the middle there. http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Comment linking /code/moreutils/
on “Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal”Submitted The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub as a story · 211 points
HN discussionNo one even attempts to quantify the the effects they claim are so important. Perhaps I didn't phrase that strongly enough but growing the economy or making it more efficient is not the point. It's at most a rationalization. go live in a rural area, consume very little, and survive with bad internet That's not a realistic advice. It's extremely difficult, puts having a family largely out of reach, and places you awa…
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on “A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing”Submitted Hacking Water as a story · 201 points
HN discussionJoey Hess: http://joeyh.name/ Lives out in the sticks and codes embedded stuff in Haskell, usually to automate his life in the backwoods of East Tennessee.
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted I work for The Internet now as a story · 185 points
HN discussionSee also the related announcement [1] on the most recent “Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day” [2]. [1]: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Volunteer_Responsibility_Amnes... [2]: https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/
Comment linking /blog/entry/Volunteer_Responsibility_Amnesty_Day/
on “Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago”Submitted Prove you are not an evil corporate person as a story · 165 points
HN discussionMaybe the webserver sits in a hut like Joey Hess' with a fridge that is also solar powered https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/fridge_0.1/
Comment linking /blog/entry/fridge_0.1/
on “How to Build a Low-Tech Website”Submitted moreutils as a story · 154 points
HN discussionThe idea that someone hand-input 331 bytes of code by this manual method reminds me of a quote by Joey Hess on https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/ouch__33__/ , regarding the development of an RSA implementation in Perl that two people got as a tattoo: "I remember sending that in, but until today I hadn't realised that my keystrokes had actually translated into needle sticks for two people, Youch!" As the video mentions,…
Comment linking /blog/entry/ouch__33__/
on “Flappy Bird Clone Code Injected into Super Mario World for SNES by Hand”Submitted Clean OS reinstalls with propellor as a story · 149 points
HN discussionA lot of great programming celebrities here. A little surprised not to see Joey Hess. He's more low key than most: https://joeyh.name Also, a second for Limor Fried, ladyada of adafruit.
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Removing everything from GitHub as a story · 142 points
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