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Ben Hearsum
Personal blog · hearsum.caprogrammingsystems
Ben Hearsum's personal blog at hearsum.ca covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Going Faster with Balrog”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on the history of code signing at Mozilla. The one commenter cites it while expressing their own view that code signing is painful for developers and users.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am seasoned CI & Release Engineer currently working for Mozilla. You can find me on Mastodon at https://fosstodon.org/@bhearsum, or reach by e-mail at ben@hearsum.ca.
Most-linked posts?
- Going Faster with Balrog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-26
- A brief history of code signing at Mozilla2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-07
What Hacker News says?
Code signing is absolutely disgusting practically and philosophically. It has very reasonable and good intent behind it, but the practical implementations cause great suffering and sadness both for developers (cert management, cost, tools) and end-users (freedom of computing). It is ugly: https://hearsum.ca/posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/
Comment linking /posts/history-of-code-signing-at-mozilla/
on “Apple needs a Snow Sequoia”Submitted A brief history of code signing at Mozilla as a story · 246 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Faster with Balrog as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Streamlining throttled rollout of Firefox releases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Faster with Balrog as a story · 1 points
HN discussion