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Bert Peters
Personal blog · bertptrs.nlprogrammingsystems
Bert Peters's personal blog at bertptrs.nl covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “How to Review an AUR Package”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-30, 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 blog for a post on reviewing AUR packages for security before installing them, in a thread about moving from NixOS back to Arch Linux. The post is about Arch packaging and AUR safety.
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.
My name is Bert Peters and I’m a software developer/computer enthusiast/nerd. I write articles and create demos about technology and miscellaneous items that strike my fancy, and I fail to hide my love for Rust.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Review an AUR Package2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-17
- Deleting emails will not save the planet (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-31
- Misunderstanding That "Dependency" Comic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-24
- Rust Edition 2024 Annotated2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-25
What Hacker News says?
Compared to other Linux distribution's package tooling Arch's is pretty nice and painless, I think. Agreed with namcap/chroot - I think there should be even more mandatory checks on pushing stuff to AUR. But even so - regarding your last point: you absolutely need to check all PKGBUILDs from AUR or potentially get malware. https://bertptrs.nl/2026/01/30/how-to-review-an-aur-package.... is a nice recent article by on…
Comment linking /2026/01/30/how-to-review-an-aur-package.html
on “I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux”Submitted Deadlock-Free Mutexes and Directed Acyclic Graphs as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misunderstanding That "Dependency" Comic as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misunderstanding That "Dependency" Comic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Edition 2024 Annotated as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deleting emails will not save the planet (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Edition 2024 Annotated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Review an AUR Package as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deleting emails will not save the planet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How does async Rust work? as a story · 1 points
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