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Christoph Berg
Personal blog · df7cb.de/blogprogrammingsystems
Christoph Berg writes Myon's Blog, a personal blog at df7cb.de about programming and systems. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Debian vcswatch and git --filter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Christoph Berg's blog posts on OpenPGP key lookup via DNS and the sdate tool for Unix and Eternal September timestamps. HN commenters cite them as sources or project references.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Debian vcswatch and git --filter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-19
What Hacker News says?
That I'm not 100% sure of. I know for receiving, you'd just configure OfflineIMAP to deliver each account's messages into a different folder, and just switch between them in Mutt, but I don't know how it would work for distinct from-addresses, contact lists, etc. Some quick googling[1] makes it look like you indeed do that first thing, and then set up a hook to load a different configuration file when you enter the…
Comment linking /blog/2010/Using_multiple_IMAP_accounts_with_Mutt.html
on “Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client”Submitted PostgreSQL and Undelete as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I was building my own version of about me. Do you have a link you can share? > people should be able to publish link to public key as well. There's a actually a standard for this: https://www.df7cb.de/blog/2007/openpgp-dns.html I would prefer if you could just dump the whole key in DNS itself, but TXT records are limited to 255 bytes. > and changes can also be captured in a blockchain . What's your use case for wa…
Comment linking /blog/2007/openpgp-dns.html
on “Locating Humans with DNS”Submitted Debian vcswatch and git --filter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's also sdate for the Eternal September epoch. 10000 Sep 1993 was 2021-01-16. http://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/ one commit message for the QDBs: From 14df411817feda9decf9dd8a6cd555d71f199730 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 20:05:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix long --covid option scripts/sdate.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Sep 17 20…
Comment linking /projects/sdate/
on “The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday”Submitted Vcswatch and Git –Filter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Ending September Date as a story · 1 points
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