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Ben Summers
Personal blog · bens.me.uk · on HN as bensummersprogrammingweb
Ben Summers's personal blog at bens.me.uk covers programming and web. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Summers's blog for posts on IPv6, including 'Adventures in IPv6' about running it. One comment cites that post as support for its point about IPv6 being fairly boring.
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.
Ben Summers' home page, with links to past and current projects.
Most-linked posts?
- Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-11
What Hacker News says?
That's the choice I made: http://bens.me.uk/2010/jruby-in-practice It works very well. You get close to the performance of C code in a 'safe' language, but can write the non-performance-critical code in a less verbose language of your choice.
Comment linking /2010/jruby-in-practice
on “Ask HN: Any web startups using Java?”Submitted Inter-window messaging using localStorage as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI use multicast DNS so that my server in a development VM can automatically publish a hostname to the host for testing. http://bens.me.uk/2013/multicast-dns-and-development-virtual... This is especially useful as my application is multi-tenant, where you can potentially use lots of different hostnames. I'm wary of trusting a development certificate on my development machines. One slight misconfiguration, and you've…
Comment linking /2013/multicast-dns-and-development-virtual-machines
on “How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine”Submitted IPhone auto-rotation: out of control as a story · 65 points
HN discussionI find mDNS very useful for our development VMs: http://bens.me.uk/2013/multicast-dns-and-development-virtual... Instead of hacking your /etc/hosts file, just let the VM publish relevant DNS entries using mDNS.
Comment linking /2013/multicast-dns-and-development-virtual-machines
on “How My Printer Caused Excessive Syscalls and UDP Traffic”Submitted Tech conference for people called Ben* as a story · 40 points
HN discussionAccording to [1] there are a few - no big names, though. As [2] says, running IPv6 is fairly boring; you get access to the same web as everyone else. [1] http://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=native&countr... [2] http://bens.me.uk/2011/adventures-in-ipv6
Comment linking /2011/adventures-in-ipv6
on “IPv4 is almost gone (in Europe anyway)”Submitted Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post about my experiences with using an iPad to show software at networking events: http://bens.me.uk/2010/ipad-software-demo-at-networking-even... TL;DR - it works great, but stick to static screenshots for making the tour very quick.
Comment linking /2010/ipad-software-demo-at-networking-events
on “First impressions of the Galaxy Tab from Tim Bray (Google Android Evangelist)”Submitted Unbluring web font icons: Response to GitHub's Octicons post as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThe Five Stages of Oracle buying Sun (with apologies to the Joy of Tech): http://bens.me.uk/oracle-buys-sun
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on “It's sinking in that Sun is gone”Submitted Why Rails' magic and DSL style might not be good as a story · 17 points
HN discussionDesign it well in the first place! Here's something I recently wrote about speed and web apps: http://bens.me.uk/2009/fast-web-applications
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on “How do you scale your web application?”Submitted What's the equivalent of Twitter's 140 char limit for non-Latin charsets? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI moved away from Rails because the data model didn't fit my app. But I still use it for all the management applications. Here's a writeup I did for EngineYard about the move from Rails to JRuby and my own app 'framework': http://bens.me.uk/2010/jruby-in-practice
Comment linking /2010/jruby-in-practice
on “Some HNers seem to hate Rails. I want to know why.”Submitted Multicast DNS, development VMs, and multi-tenant applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe use JRuby with a bit of Java. The JVM is a very interesting place to be, with relative safety in the language and runtime, C-ish performance, and access to lots of lovely libraries. And you don't have to program in Java to use it. Here's how we went from Ruby to JRuby + Java: http://bens.me.uk/2010/jruby-in-practice
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on “Ask HN: Is Java Dying?”Submitted Using an iPad to show software at networking events as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multiple users and the iPad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java-style annotations in Ruby (with basic implementation) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haplo's Recruitment Process to Remove Bias as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radical Simplicity in software and the Division of Labour as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Searching for techniques in a changing world (localStorage messaging followup) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking about code before committing it: A checklist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategies for implementing Content Security Policy in web applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to convert Keynote to PowerPoint without the ugliness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JRuby in Practice: Increasing Performance While Reducing Complexity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web app security - control untrusted processes with Solaris SMF as a story · 1 points
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