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Chris Dzombak
Personal blog · dzombak.com/blogprogramminghardwaresystems
Chris Dzombak's personal blog at dzombak.com covers programming, hardware and systems. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Building the atomic clock I’ve always wanted”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Chris Dzombak's hands-on technical posts, including advice on reducing SD card wear on a Raspberry Pi, building an atomic clock, and redirecting Hacker News links with example code.
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.
A Midwestern software developer with objectively too many hobbies.
Most-linked posts?
- Building the atomic clock I’ve always wanted2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-12
What Hacker News says?
The author links to read only advice a couple of lines down. https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2021/11/Reducing-SD-Card-Wear-o...
Comment linking /blog/2021/11/Reducing-SD-Card-Wear-on-a-Raspberry-Pi-or-Armbian-Device.html
on “Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi”Submitted Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi as a story · 510 points
HN discussionHe has example code (presumably active on his server) for how to do this - https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2021/02/Redirecting-Hacker-News... :)
Comment linking /blog/2021/02/Redirecting-Hacker-News-traffic-away-from-your-site-via-Nginx-configuration.html
on “Building the atomic clock I’ve always wanted”Submitted Getting good results from Claude Code as a story · 490 points
HN discussionInputting the URL directly works, just not when clicking on the title here on HN. https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2021/12/Building-the-atomic-clo... AND, it looks like it still redirects if you click on the link in my comment.
Comment linking /blog/2021/12/Building-the-atomic-clock-I-ve-always-wanted.html
on “Building the atomic clock I’ve always wanted”Submitted Use Your Type System as a story · 316 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem as a story · 218 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the atomic clock I’ve always wanted as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing my personal SSH infrastructure with Yubikeys as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Comcast injecting messages into web traffic is dangerous as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raspberry Pi Use Cases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking slightly better sum types without Go generics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embracing a ruthless approach to email spam as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody is using App Transport Security; what’s next? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional Documentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pi Reliability: Reduce writes to your SD card as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runner: a lightweight wrapper for cron jobs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tool for Working with Git Worktrees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freeing disk space on GitHub Actions runners as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Pinboard to Raindrop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expanding the Ubiquiti Cloud Key Gen 2 with a 3.5” Hard Drive as a story · 1 points
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