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Chris Swan

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Chris Swan's personal blog at blog.thestateofme.com covers programming and business. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “Four Pillars of Modern Infrastructure”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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56mentions?
10HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2011

IT mixology and other thoughts about tech, life the universe and everything

Most-linked posts?

  1. Four Pillars of Modern Infrastructure
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-21
  2. GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. I have both. The Flint 2 is definitely the better choice for a home router https://blog.thestateofme.com/2024/11/30/gl-inet-mt-6000-fli... But as somebody doing OpenWrt package development the One is where I'm running Snapshot and trying out the new Alpine package manager.

    Comment linking /2024/11/30/gl-inet-mt-6000-flint2-review/

    on “OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt”
  2. Submitted Using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  3. I wrote the InfoQ piece. Some further thoughts on my blog - http://blog.thestateofme.com/2020/03/10/further-thoughts-on-...

    Comment linking /2020/03/10/further-thoughts-on-tornadovm/

    on “TornadoVM: Running Java on GPUs and FPGAs”
  4. Submitted AMQP – the enchanted corner of SOA as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Sony's new DRM (on Salt) crashes DVD players as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Email like it’s 1995 as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Getting US Google Books onto a UK Kindle as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted NoSQL as a governance arbitrage as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted What did Google do to my Wordpress.com hosted blog on Jun 14th? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Review – HP Microserver as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Congress – cheaper than you thought as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Getting Google Voice outside the US as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Multi tier Docker apps with Panamax | Chris Swan's Weblog as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Another way that Google+ gets identity wrong as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Should tablets be multi user (and other thoughts on Android)? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Bubble 2.0 - Facebook, valuation and IPO as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The web filter industry as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Your own VPN in the cloud as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Azure account disabled 2.5 days into 90 day free trial as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Lessons to be learned from the Linode Bitcoin incident as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Why Raspberry Pi is going to be huge as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted One weekend, four upgrades as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Facebook and Internet Alchemy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The madness of corporate web filters as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted A tale of two clouds as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Office VOIP as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Kindle 3G – it’s a trap as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Implementing OSSF Scorecards Across a GitHub Organisation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted ValidScript – a modest proposal for app security as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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