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Ben Burwell
Personal blog · benburwell.com/posts · on HN as benburwellprogrammingsystems
Ben Burwell's personal blog at benburwell.com covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Serve your GitHub pages with SSL using CloudFlare's free plan”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on Postgres row-level security in multi-tenant SaaS and one on configuring Cloudflare for HTTPS on GitHub Pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Serve your GitHub pages with SSL using CloudFlare's free plan2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-06
What Hacker News says?
This was a shock to us after using RLS for a while. The solution outlined here worked great for us: https://www.benburwell.com/posts/row-level-security-postgres...
Comment linking /posts/row-level-security-postgresql-views/
on “Shipping Multi-Tenant SaaS Using Postgres Row-Level Security”Submitted Don't Make Visitors Make Accounts as a story · 143 points
HN discussionhttps://www.benburwell.com/posts/configuring-cloudflare-univ...
Comment linking /posts/configuring-cloudflare-universal-ssl/
on “HTTPS for GitHub Pages”Submitted Visualizing Congress with D3.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInteresting idea, letting someone more familiar with the project make a bug report. It's almost like crowdsourcing tech support. I wrote about how open source project bug trackers aren't as inviting as they might be a few months ago: https://www.benburwell.com/posts/open-bug-tracking-empowers-... .
Comment linking /posts/open-bug-tracking-empowers-users/
on “I Will File Bugs for You (2014)”Submitted Facebook Now Sends PGP Encrypted Email Notifications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote about how I decrypt TLS streams in Wireshark for debugging purposes here: https://www.benburwell.com/posts/intercepting-golang-tls-wit... It won't apply to every situation, but might provide some building blocks you can adapt to your environment.
Comment linking /posts/intercepting-golang-tls-with-wireshark/
on “tcpdump is amazing (2016)”Submitted Serve your GitHub pages with SSL using CloudFlare's free plan as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transactions Are Not Locks (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging HTTP Services with Mitmproxy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning About Syscall Filtering with Seccomp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How does DHCP work? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion