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A Day In The Life Of...
Personal blog · adayinthelifeof.nlprogrammingsystemssecurity
A Day In The Life Of... is a personal blog at adayinthelifeof.nl about programming, systems and security. Since 2010, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “AWS services explained in one line each”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on building a browser, AWS, SSH on non-standard ports, and retro game internals. Most comments cite its posts as sources or background for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- AWS services explained in one line each4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-26
- Memcache internals (2011)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-05
- I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-22
- Go Maps vs. Switches2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
- Why putting SSH on another port than 22 is bad idea2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-26
What Hacker News says?
The blog post that prompted the author to start this project: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser (September 2023): https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2023/09/22/browsers.html HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37608580
Comment linking /2023/09/22/browsers.html
on “Gosub – An open-source browser engine”Submitted AWS services explained in one line each as a story · 1668 points
HN discussionThere's so much going on within AWS I'd suggest approaching it the other way and identifying a few examples of things you'd need, and then researching how AWS implements those things - if you need a mainstream relational database, AWS has RDS or Aurora, etc. Need to make sure your RDS database is only accessible from your private backend app? Thats a Security Group. Need somewhere to run that app as a Docker image?…
Comment linking /2020/05/20/aws.html
on “You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it”Submitted Why my projects keep failing as a story · 183 points
HN discussiona: $port != 22 is enough to thwart most bots and skiddies. If you think the port number is a guarantee that you are safe or that you are communicating with a blessed ssh you are sadly mistaken. b: Uhh the port number means nothing. Host keys are there for a reason... Someone does not understand the functions of SSH. http://www.snailbook.com/ <- great book c: If you are not investigating fingerprint issues when loggi…
Comment linking /2012/03/12/why-putting-ssh-on-another-port-than-22-is-bad-idea/
on “Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea”Submitted Memcache internals (2011) as a story · 72 points
HN discussionHere you go https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html
Comment linking /2020/05/20/aws.html
on “Google Cloud products in 4 words or less”Submitted How the deflate algorithm works as a story · 40 points
HN discussionOr how memcached does it https://www.adayinthelifeof.nl/2011/02/06/memcache-internals...
Comment linking /2011/02/06/memcache-internals/
on “When Simple Wins: Power of 2 Load Balancing”Submitted Why putting SSH on another port than 22 is bad idea as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIndeed, magic. How about the Commodore 64, there was a game (Eindeloos, Radarsoft, 1985) within 64kb that has a huge map. Someone recently (after 40 years!) extracted the map (500 screens) and the png alone is 800kb. See the story an zoom in and try finding the little heart in the map! https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2025/03/07/endless.html
Comment linking /2025/03/07/endless.html
on “This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser”Submitted The Software Manager's "Joel Test" as a story · 24 points
HN discussionIt's a bad idea, privileged ports are a thing for a reason. https://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Installation/PrivilegedPorts.... https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2012/03/12/why-putting-ssh-on-ano...
Comment linking /2012/03/12/why-putting-ssh-on-another-port-than-22-is-bad-idea/
on “Persistant SSH Threats?”Submitted AWS services explained in one line each (2020) as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powerful extensions do not need powerful code as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memcache internals as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Verifying your age in a privacy preserving manner as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Posting on the Internet Frightens Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing my first game with Unity3d as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Maps vs. Switches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internal PHP function usage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Verifying your age in a privacy preserving manner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A comprehensive list of failed projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A comprehensive list of failed projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Maps vs. Switches as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted About using UTF-8 fields in MySQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cached oauth token validation in Reverse-proxy server as a story · 1 points
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