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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.
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?
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”Submitted Oh shit I started getting a million requests a month for a CGI script as a story · 14 points
HN discussionJavascript 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…
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on “What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD”Submitted Typing the λ (lambda) character with the compose key on Xorg as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThere'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?
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on “Save Time On Hacker News: Mark All Read”Submitted Browser tabs are not a do-list as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven More Languages: Julia Day Three as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Font of the month: Sans Bullshit Sans – uses ligatures to replace bullshit words as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why breaking encryption to stop terror is a monumentally shit idea as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make an email signature that makes you seem like a dick as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven More Languages: Elixir Day Two as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is Math.max() less than Math.min()? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript: the weird parts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted N shades of #XXXXXX: an html5 fifty shades cover maker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weather reports from the commandline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we pronounce WWW in English: a brief and unscientific survey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven More Languages: Elixir Day One as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infographic: Facebook Vs the Stasi in numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trickle down totalitarianism: why everyone will be listening in soon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happy 30th Birthday Tetris as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stegospam lets you hide your data in spam to avoid NSA/GCHQ spying. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming with our communal exocoretex as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snipp.IO a pastebin made of haskell, yesod and mongodb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of Birthday Problems, Haskell and Floating Point Precision as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a naïve XML parser - Part 1: Haskell and Parsec as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New Microsoft Logo and the Death of the PC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making SVG fractals with perl as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Micropuzzles and generating Pythagorean triples as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digits in page numbers and thoughts on optimization as a story · 1 points
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