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Coffee on the Keyboard

Personal blog · coffeeonthekeyboard.comprogrammingsecurity

Coffee on the Keyboard is a personal blog at coffeeonthekeyboard.com about programming and security. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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7HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts about Scottbot, an IRC bot that can be taught which jokes are good or bad. One commenter links it as a related earlier project alongside a Twss.js joke-detection bot.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

James writes stuff about programming, mostly

What Hacker News says?

  1. asm89 · 2012-01-12
    There was a similar project before that implemented this for an IRC bot. You can also train this bot by telling it what jokes are good and bad ones. :) https://github.com/jsocol/scottbot http://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/say-hi-to-scottbot-594/

    Comment linking /say-hi-to-scottbot-594/

    on “Twss.js”
  2. jamessocol · 2012-07-18

    Submitted Web App Security Best Practices as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  3. huntern · 2012-07-19

    Submitted CSRF: Cross-Site Request Forgeries as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  4. jamessocol · 2012-06-21

    Submitted Why I don't put my slides online as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  5. jamessocol · 2012-07-25

    Submitted Server Configuration - Basic Security Part 7 as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  6. craigkerstiens · 2012-06-08

    Submitted Why Django Sucks, Except When It Doesn’t as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  7. jamessocol · 2012-07-24

    Submitted Session Fixation and Hijacking - Basic Security Part 6 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. jamessocol · 2012-07-27

    Submitted Stay Up to Date - Basic Web App Security Pt 9 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. luu · 2015-01-09

    Submitted Mozilla’s Secret Browser as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. twapi · 2012-09-04

    Submitted Mozilla’s Security Best Practices as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. jamessocol · 2012-07-23

    Submitted Access Control - Basic Security Part 5 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. endtwist · 2013-03-02

    Submitted Working from Home as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. endtwist · 2013-02-11

    Submitted Stay Up to Date – Basic Security (2012) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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