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Brent Salisbury

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Brent Salisbury writes NetworkStatic, a personal blog at networkstatic.net about systems and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2015–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Brent Salisbury's blog covers network visualization and flow monitoring. An HN commenter links its open-source flow monitoring and visualization post as a resource in a thread on mapping neighborhood networks.

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.

Blogging All Things Networking, Programming and Computing.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Depends on the tools/techniques/data/associations used to envision the view. how to generate wifi heat maps and wifi coverage maps : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCgz0ZLudo wifi heatmap software : https://www.netspotapp.com/wifi-heat-map/best-wifi-heatmap-s... flow monitoring & visualization : https://networkstatic.net/open-source-flow-monitoring-and-vi... network visualizataion tools : https://medium.com/@vespi…

    Comment linking /open-source-flow-monitoring-and-visualization/

    on “Ask HN: What does a neighborhood network look like?”
  2. Submitted GoBGP – A Control Plane Evolving Software Networking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Golang for Network Ops as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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