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Ben Wilber
Personal blog · benwilber.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Ben Wilber's personal blog at benwilber.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Building a live video streaming website – Part 2 – The Application”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Wilber's series on building a live video streaming website with nginx RTMP, including part 3 on DRM. The comment is two bare links with no comment on the writing.
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Ben Wilber on the Arts and Crafts of programming, systems, automation, and other things.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a live video streaming website – Part 2 – The Application2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-20
What Hacker News says?
I just wrote a post about this kind of stuff and why it's (almost always) nonsense. You will spend more time and effort trying to shoe-horn SQLite into a server database than you will ever get any benefits from. https://benwilber.github.io/programming/2025/03/31/sqlite-is...
Comment linking /programming/2025/03/31/sqlite-is-great-for-what-it-is.html
on “Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta”Submitted Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM as a story · 86 points
HN discussionhttps://benwilber.github.io/nginx/rtmp/live/video/streaming/... https://benwilber.github.io/nginx/rtmp/live/video/streaming/...
Comment linking /nginx/rtmp/live/video/streaming/django/2018/10/20/building-a-live-video-streaming-website-part-2-the-applications.html
on “Building a live video streaming website – Part 3 – DRM”Submitted Show HN: Hitcount.me – Live Website Popularity as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I built ghit.me, hit count badges for GitHub as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never enable 2FA for accounts that you actually care about (2023) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a live video streaming website – Part 2 – The Application as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQLite is great for what it is: a small, embedded SQL database. But nothing more as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a live video streaming website – Part 1 – Start Streaming (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Stream Keys with Nginx-Rtmp and Django as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HLS video hotlink protection with Nginx and Varnish as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I built Sinklog.com – combine your log outputs into a single stream as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I built Sinklog.com, combine your log outputs into a single stream as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Is A Commodity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I built ghit.me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unified Endpoints in Nginx-push-stream as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic log formats in Nginx as a story · 1 points
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