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Chris Swan
Personal blog · blog.thestateofme.comprogrammingbusiness
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.
IT mixology and other thoughts about tech, life the universe and everything
Most-linked posts?
- Four Pillars of Modern Infrastructure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-21
- GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-01
What Hacker News says?
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.
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on “OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt”Submitted Using Amazon EC2 as a web proxy as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI wrote the InfoQ piece. Some further thoughts on my blog - http://blog.thestateofme.com/2020/03/10/further-thoughts-on-...
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on “TornadoVM: Running Java on GPUs and FPGAs”Submitted AMQP – the enchanted corner of SOA as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sony's new DRM (on Salt) crashes DVD players as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email like it’s 1995 as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting US Google Books onto a UK Kindle as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted NoSQL as a governance arbitrage as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What did Google do to my Wordpress.com hosted blog on Jun 14th? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review – HP Microserver as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Congress – cheaper than you thought as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Google Voice outside the US as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi tier Docker apps with Panamax | Chris Swan's Weblog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another way that Google+ gets identity wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should tablets be multi user (and other thoughts on Android)? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bubble 2.0 - Facebook, valuation and IPO as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The web filter industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your own VPN in the cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Azure account disabled 2.5 days into 90 day free trial as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons to be learned from the Linode Bitcoin incident as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Raspberry Pi is going to be huge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One weekend, four upgrades as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook and Internet Alchemy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The madness of corporate web filters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A tale of two clouds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Office VOIP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kindle 3G – it’s a trap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing OSSF Scorecards Across a GitHub Organisation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ValidScript – a modest proposal for app security as a story · 1 points
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