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    Madhouse Project

    asylum.madhouse-project.org · Personal blog · on HN since 2013

    Personal blog of a developer writing about log handling, syslog-ng, the Hy language, Git workflows, and Google's hiring process.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters link it as a follow-up to the "grepping logs is terrible" posts and as a source of articles on Hy.

    Stats for nerds
    15HN people shared it
    18linked in comments
    487story points
    Aug 2016last shared
    2014people per year2016

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Peeking through logs
      5 people · 132 points · first shared 2021 · 9 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Grepping logs is still terrible
      2 people · 100 points · first shared 2015 · 123 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Google recruitment mistakes: part 3
      1 person · 100 points · first shared 2016 · 99 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Grepping logs is terrible
      2 people · 96 points · first shared 2015 · 102 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Hy: The Logical choice
      2 people · 43 points · first shared 2014 · 12 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Walking in my (Electron) shoes
      2 people · 4 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
    7. 7
      On Git Workflows
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      JSON processing with syslog-ng
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Potential Happiness – Dashboard for the terminal
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Finding Bugs by Reading Documentation
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • greggybAug 2016

      Part one is linked, though not clearly, from the article.[0]

      Checking the category under which this was posted, Rants, gets you to number two in a single page where a good old Mark I eyeball grep is enough to get you there with some brief scrolling.[1]

      (I was curious, too.)

      [0] https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2011/12/13/google-fail/

      [1] https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2012/08/21/recruitment-mistakes-2/

    • FoxboronFeb 2014

      I'll repost two recent blogposts about Hy that have been on Hackernews recently.

      http://fox.devport.no/?p=82

      http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2014/01/26/hy-the-logical-choice/

    • 0xmohitAug 2016

      Follow up:

      https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2015/05/07/grepping-logs-is-still-terrible/

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