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500 miles

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14blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time1414
Last 90 days11
Last 30 days11
Last 7 days00
Figures for this page
First cited7 Apr 2015
Latest citation22 Sept 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title2 of 14 blogs
New citing blogs a weeksince Apr 2015
New citing blogs a week, since Apr 2015: 601 weeks, peak 2 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 2

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Shape: evergreen. Half of its 12 citing blogs had cited it after 3,093 days; 92% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 2 blogs have no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • 500 miles2 blogs
  • 500-mile email bug1 blog
  • 500-mile email problems1 blog
  • bugs and edge cases more of a curiosity1 blog
  • cannot send email more than 500 miles1 blog

Cited by 14 blogs in 14 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
maheepk.net1 post
| Maheep's Webspace

linked as “The Case of the 500-Mile Email”

Read at maheepk.net (opens in a new tab)
22 Sept 2026
dest1 post
The 500-mile email story (Trey Harris) Read at alexandre.storelli.fr (opens in a new tab)
4 May 2025
technicalchops.com1 post
Consensus in the Machine: A New Method for Tackling LLM Hallucinations

linked as “bugs and edge cases more of a curiosity”

Read at technicalchops.com (opens in a new tab)
5 Sept 2024
George Mauer's Blog1 post
A Heck of a Wild Bug Chase

linked as “the absolute best bug-hunting story”

Read at georgemauer.net (opens in a new tab)
1 Aug 2024
Henrik Jernevad1 post
AI is the ultimate leaky abstraction 🪣

linked as “cannot send email more than 500 miles”

Read at henko.net (opens in a new tab)
16 Jan 2024
jlsksr.de1 post
Links week 39/2023

linked as “We can't send mail farther than 500 miles..”

Read at jlsksr.de (opens in a new tab)
30 Sept 2023
mkasberg1 post
Catching Mew: A Playable Game Boy Quote

linked as “We can’t send e-mail more than 500 miles”

Read at mikekasberg.com (opens in a new tab)
26 Sept 2023
amedee.me1 post
Debugging Is Science

linked as “Emails don’t travel more than 500 miles”

Read at amedee.me (opens in a new tab)
9 Nov 2022
kevin_nisbet1 post
Outage Stories: The Flapping Link

linked as “500-mile email problems”

Read at wdkwwdk.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Oct 2022
Serverless on AWS | Better Dev1 post
Things I Found Interesting #4

linked as “500-mile email bug”

Read at betterdev.blog (opens in a new tab)
13 Dec 2021
framablog.org1 post
Khrys’presso du lundi 13 juillet 2020

linked as “500 miles”

Read at framablog.org (opens in a new tab)
13 Jul 2020
Marcus Jaschen1 post
The 500-mile email

linked as “The 500-mile email”

Read at marcusjaschen.de (opens in a new tab)
7 Apr 2015
Sam Rose1 post
https://samwho.dev/links/

linked as “500 Miles”

Read at samwho.dev (opens in a new tab)
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kinduff1 post
Links | Alejandro AR (kinduff)

linked as “Can’t send email more than 500 miles”

Read at kinduff.com (opens in a new tab)
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