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by susam 1086 days ago
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing your project here. Out of curiosity, I did some searches with some interesting strings. At the time of posting this comment, here is what the search results look like:

Vim: 8 entries

Emacs: 7 entries

Python: 24 entries

Rust: 24 entries

Lisp: 5 entries

Clojure: 3 entries

Haskell: 5 entries

Zig: 5 entries

Elixir: 4 entries

Scheme: 0 entries

Postgres: 4 entries

MySQL: 0 entries

SQLite: 3 entries

Jekyll: 9 entries

HTML: 40 entries

Markdown: 6 entries

LaTeX: 1 entry

Hugo: 12 entries

Next.js / Nextjs: 4 entries

Gatsby: 2 entries

Pelican: 0 entries

.com: 495 entries

.dev: 90 entries

.net: 84 entries

.io: 82 entries

.me: 53 entries

.org: 43 entries

.xyz: 15 entries

.page: 6 entries

github.io: 46 entries

medium.com: 18 entries

blogspot.com: 8 entries

wordpress.com: 4 entries

livejournal.com: 0 entries

tech: 178 entries

programming: 66 entries

random: 61 entries

thought: 49 entries

math: 16 entries

musing: 12 entries

blag: 1 entry

favorite: 28 entries

favourite: 9 entries

Now all of these results are string search results, so there is always going to be a little bit of noise when we try to draw conclusions out of these results. For example, the results for ".dev" also contains results that look like "*dev*.com".

Despite the noise, I found these results interesting. I remember in the early days when the blogosphere was being constructed 20 km above the tag clouds, it was very fashionable to have blogs for random musings or random thoughts. So I am delighted to see that most blogs out here are tech blogs. Surprisingly there is only blag. I expected at least a few more.

One of the Lisp entries is mine. Also, one of the Vim entries is mine. It is a bit ironical because I am actually an Emacs user. If I had known the comments we write on HN would become part of the search string in this blogroll, I might have chosen my words in my comment to the "Ask HN" port more judiciously! :)

1 comments

reverse engineering: 5 entries

Ghidra: 1 entry (mine)

On one hand it does bring some level of perspective on the popularity of a particular topic you're into. My first reaction was "Just 0.5% for reverse-engineering? I guess I'm down in a deep dark rabbit hole..."

On the other hand, I haven't seen the blogs of Ken Shirriff, Alex Ionescu or Raymond Chen on that list, which I know are quite popular and regularly make it to the Hacker News front page.

Presumably this would require them to show up on Hacker News and advertise their blog.