Lovecraftian horror as a file format. What a great article.
I had a look at when this article was posted on HN a few years ago. The comments are typical nitpicky HN comments like "but why did he want to make his own implementation" or "he didn't have to understand the file format, just use rpmbuild". How disappointing. As if half the stuff on HN isn't understanding/analysing obscure interesting crap that nobody outside of tech would ever care about.
I had a look at when this article was posted on HN a few years ago. The comments are typical nitpicky HN comments like "but why did he want to make his own implementation" or "he didn't have to understand the file format, just use rpmbuild". How disappointing. As if half the stuff on HN isn't understanding/analysing obscure interesting crap that nobody outside of tech would ever care about.