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Charlie Harvey

Personal blog · charlieharvey.org.uk/pageprogrammingculture

Charlie Harvey's personal blog at charlieharvey.org.uk covers programming and culture. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this personal blog for technical notes, including a critique of JavaScript's numerics and quirks, a how-to for getting a Twitter RSS feed, and a server certificate setup question.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Charlie Harvey's website — the lair of the ciderpunx. Being the home page of Charlie Harvey with diverse musings on cider, geekery and perl.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Ah, his blog.pinboard.in and pinboard.in configs are different. @idlewords: http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/gandi_sha2_intermediate_cer... Are you putting the chain certs in the SSLCertificateChainFile file, and not concating them to the SSLCertificateFile?

    Comment linking /page/gandi_sha2_intermediate_cert_ssl_tls

    on “My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT”
  2. Submitted Oh shit I started getting a million requests a month for a CGI script as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. Javascript and numerics. That is my takedown of javascript. If you don't know why its bad for numerics[1] or just generally weird [2][3] ... No, JS shouldn't be used as a systems language IMO. It gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot (multiple mixed metaphors for a reason). [1] https://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/javascript_the_weird_parts [2] https://hackernoon.com/js-wtf-with-math-79da9a941ec1 [3] http…

    Comment linking /page/javascript_the_weird_parts

    on “What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD”
  4. Submitted Typing the λ (lambda) character with the compose key on Xorg as a story · 10 points

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  5. There's an account on twitter called @hackernewsbot that tweets the highest rated stories. Twitter accounts have RSS feeds, which are a bit awkward to find, but it's been automated, just type the username in here: http://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/twitter_rss Which gives: https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_... Hopefully this gives what you were after?

    Comment linking /page/twitter_rss

    on “Save Time On Hacker News: Mark All Read”
  6. Submitted Browser tabs are not a do-list as a story · 6 points

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  7. Submitted Seven More Languages: Julia Day Three as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Font of the month: Sans Bullshit Sans – uses ligatures to replace bullshit words as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted Why breaking encryption to stop terror is a monumentally shit idea as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted How to make an email signature that makes you seem like a dick as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Seven More Languages: Elixir Day Two as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Why is Math.max() less than Math.min()? as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted JavaScript: the weird parts as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted N shades of #XXXXXX: an html5 fifty shades cover maker as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted Weather reports from the commandline as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted How we pronounce WWW in English: a brief and unscientific survey as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Seven More Languages: Elixir Day One as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Learning Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Infographic: Facebook Vs the Stasi in numbers as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Trickle down totalitarianism: why everyone will be listening in soon as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Happy 30th Birthday Tetris as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Stegospam lets you hide your data in spam to avoid NSA/GCHQ spying. as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Programming with our communal exocoretex as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Snipp.IO a pastebin made of haskell, yesod and mongodb as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Of Birthday Problems, Haskell and Floating Point Precision as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted Making a naïve XML parser - Part 1: Haskell and Parsec as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted The New Microsoft Logo and the Death of the PC as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted Making SVG fractals with perl as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted Micropuzzles and generating Pythagorean triples as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Digits in page numbers and thoughts on optimization as a story · 1 points

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