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Bryce Fisher-Fleig
Personal blog · bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blogprogrammingwebsecurity
Bryce Fisher-Fleig's personal blog at bryce.fisher-fleig.org covers programming, web and security. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Handlebars Considered Harmful”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on setting up SSL with AWS CloudFront and S3, including for static sites and custom-domain hosting, and on running costs for a small web app.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cloudfront-and-s3/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-08
- Handlebars Considered Harmful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-02
What Hacker News says?
It's possible, as long as you're ok with SNI (which is a pretty minor issue these days). You have to setup SSL on CloudFront to get it to work, check out: https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cl... I used that for my static S3 site, it's working fine.
Comment linking /blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cloudfront-and-s3/
on “Running costs for running a web app”Submitted Handlebars Considered Harmful as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIn addition to CloudFlare, you can also use AWS CloudFront for this. We just implemented this to get https working on our custom-domain Github Pages site [1] this week. You first have to upload your SSL certificate to AWS IAM [2] (you only have to do this once, or you can just purchase your certificate from the AWS console now too). Then, all you have to do is create a new CloudFront distribution and point the origi…
Comment linking /blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cloudfront-and-s3/
on “Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted”Submitted Effective commit messages as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou already can do that for pretty cheap (if you use SNI), but only from the CLI and the command isn't exactly simple. [0] Having it integrated so you just click 'yes, SSL' and it handles cert generation and config would be great. [0] https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cl...
Comment linking /blog/setting-up-ssl-on-aws-cloudfront-and-s3/
on “Add Amazon root certificates”Submitted Returning Trait Objects in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI spent around 30 minutes reading "Rust for functional programmers" [1] to get overall perspective and then around 3 hours more reading selected chapters from "The Book" [2] about borrowing, lifetimes etc. Then I managed to write a simple program which reads a password from stdin, applies scrypt KDF to it and prints the result in hex encoding. It took me less than 2 hours. Mostly I just tried to do something, and wh…
Comment linking /blog/strategies-for-returning-references-in-rust/index.html
on “Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?”Submitted Handlebars considered harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Startups Will Always Fail to Displace Email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secure SSH with per Service Key Pairs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting Up SSL on AWS CloudFront and S3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion