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BackSlasher
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BackSlasher is a personal blog at blog.backslasher.net about programming, hardware and games. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “We don't do DST at this company”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link BackSlasher's posts as technical references: an SSH versus OpenVPN tunneling comparison, a PowerShell script that keeps Windows awake, and a note on very large strings. Comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My blog
Most-linked posts?
- We don't do DST at this company2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-09
- A 1.5GB String2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-08
- SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-10
- /windows-awake-ps.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-02
What Hacker News says?
My personal opinion is that if the USB enclosure is that flaky then it's not worth trusting it to operate when it's time to do a restore. You could shuck the drive and connect it directly or find a reliable USB enclosure. Putting the disk in /etc/fstab by uuid should keep it mounted to the same directory at least, but I'll be surprised if the backup software properly handles the potential errors well. The following…
Comment linking /automatically-mounting-usb-drives-and-surviving-reconnects.html
on “A Storage Crisis”Submitted SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling as a story · 363 points
HN discussionI was going to object with "port forwarding is tcp over tcp!" but it turns out after a little research that this is totally wrong and its faster this way than openvpn: http://blog.backslasher.net/ssh-openvpn-tunneling.html . I guess I ended up thinking this because it's how the dynamic port forwarding works?
Comment linking /ssh-openvpn-tunneling.html
on “A few things about Redis security”Submitted Show HN: Tapestry, composite e-display poster as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: Israel Remote: Yes (EU hours, async with US) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, Python, Go, Postgres, infra and backend generally Résumé/CV: https://blog.backslasher.net/about/ Email: jobs@backslasher.net I'm an independent software architect. Companies bring me in for the painful infra and backend projects their team can't get to without derailing core work, usual…
Comment linking /about/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)”Submitted Returning to The Sims: 128 errors in a fresh lot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think the author is referring to this at the end of the article : https://blog.backslasher.net/1.5GB-string.html
Comment linking /1.5GB-string.html
on “Escalating via post-it note just to get some health checks”Submitted Adventures installing Prusa INDX with LLM help as a story · 2 points
HN discussionon MacOS, caffeine is a good tool but if you need it in dock (pill?) form, the amazing Amphetamine app is there for you. It'll even (if you use safari) keep you up just long enough to finish that big download. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12 on Windows, the process involves taking a Power Request. A Display power request keeps the display awake, and is the overriding above most all else.…
Comment linking /windows-awake-ps.html
on “Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm”Submitted "Can you paint this Apple orange?" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNormally Windows apps can call SetThreadExecutionState to request the screensaver not come on. Video players do this, as do some other apps. See here[1] for a Powershell script that does just this, for example. I suppose they could have deployed some group policy that disables this behavior. That'd be annoying if it's the case. [1] https://blog.backslasher.net/windows-awake-ps.html
Comment linking /windows-awake-ps.html
on “Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm”Submitted Is This an Emergency? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 1.5GB String as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I reverse-engineered my HVAC because I couldn't turn it off reliably as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We don't do DST at this company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We don't do DST at this company as a story · 1 points
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