Top all-time · #22173
cat slave diary
Personal blog · greebo.netsecurityprogramming
cat slave diary is a personal blog at greebo.net about security and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about criticisms of PHP's security defaults. The one commenter quotes a passage from Andrew van der Stock about PHP's direction, and the comment says nothing about the writing itself.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Different programming environments enforce security to different degrees, with different defaults. I'll here post some of the many criticisms that have been aimed at PHP over the years: Andrew van der Stock writes: -------------- For some time, I’ve been worried about the direction of PHP. As many of you know, I helped write XMB Forum and now help write UltimaBB. XMB in particular is an old code base, and UltimaBB,…
Comment linking /2006/01/04/php-insecurity-failure-of-leadership/
on “Free Wordpress themes coming with a price”Submitted Don't judge BadBios without sufficient evidence as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Standing for the OWASP Board in 2017 – 2018 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion