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Convalesco
Personal blog · convalesco.org/articles · on HN as atmosxprogrammingsecurity
Convalesco is a personal blog at convalesco.org about programming and security. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on web fonts and typography, which one commenter said they loved in a thread asking for favourite web fonts for long texts.
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.
a digital diary
Most-linked posts?
- /articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-change-the-world/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-13
What Hacker News says?
I have replaced “Apple Photos” with photoprism. I am happy so far. Related blog post: https://www.convalesco.org/notes/2024/09/29/setup-photoprism...
Comment linking /notes/2024/09/29/setup-photoprism-in-gentoo-gnu-linux.html
on “Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15”Submitted A quick overview: SQL vs. NoSQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've written about this[1] some time ago. When I used windows 8, was the first time that I had to read a tutorial online on how to perform every day tasks after ... maybe 10 years. I mean it's hilarious how bad the user experience of windows 8 in laptops with no touch screen is. [1] http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2014/03/24/microsoft-windows-...
Comment linking /blog/2014/03/24/microsoft-windows-8/
on “Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1”Submitted Raspberry Pi Seedbox with Transmission and TorGuard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat My blog[1] uses a static side generator called middleman[2] and I was looking for a way to share 'quotes' in the website's subtitle. This seems to be the best solution! I was about to write a simple Sinatra API to run in localhost, but that's a way better solution for my use case! Thanks! [1] http://www.convalesco.org/ [2] https://middlemanapp.com/ UPDATE: A good use case is to use the HTML form to store subsc…
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on “Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API”Submitted On the matter of bitcoin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere: http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2014/02/11/on-the-matter-of-b...
Comment linking /blog/2014/02/11/on-the-matter-of-bitcoin/
on “For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins”Submitted Cypherpunk's Collection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNice list. I wrote a blog post about 'Startup Istanbul 2014'. I have a section with quick advises from Michael Siebel to overseas entrepreneurs. It's pretty small list but I think it's a good quick-list of some general guidelines. The post is here[1] in case you wanna take a look. [1] http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2014/10/05/startup-istanbul-r...
Comment linking /blog/2014/10/05/startup-istanbul-review/
on “Guide List for Startups Applying to Y Combinator”Submitted Uploading Kubernetes pod coredumps to S3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe bitcoin protocol is an extremely important advancement as it solved the double spending[1] problem and can be used for all sorts of interesting community and business applications. Especially for systems used by organizations (e.g. DNS) that need to be public, uncensored and accessible from everyone (institutions, countries and individuals). Here are just a few ideas: http://www.convalesco.org/#31 [1] https://en…
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on “Namecoin”Submitted Convalesco: Security Policies for Remote Workers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy true colors were there from the beginning, if you cared to look[1]. No, ban bitcoin is a huge mistake IMHO. BTC is a great innovation and has extremely interesting features. I already mentioned transaction speed elsewhere. I believe that we need to wait and see if volatility stabilizes at some point. Then I'd like to see an easier way of conversion from currency-to-btc and back. That said I'd never put the faith…
Comment linking /blog/2014/02/11/on-the-matter-of-bitcoin/
on “PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments”Submitted Security Policies for Remote Workers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNo we're not early in the game. I believe BTC has already proven itself an asset and has a place in our future. But as a currency it's already failed. I believe it is a failed by design[1]. My proposal is to educate people to make better decisions voting-wise. Other than that, you're switching back and forth between systems of controls and BTC is extremely worst compared to what we have today because it is anonymous…
Comment linking /blog/2014/02/11/on-the-matter-of-bitcoin/
on “PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments”Submitted Startup Istanbul Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNo, I'm not joking. Gold remains the only asset people will trust their money on at a time of war and the only asset which could create a new currency[1] successfully, if needed. Comparing gold which has a 3000+ year history at currency backing to a 5 year old experiment is a little bit hard for me. > Many users of Bitcoin are deeply mistrustful of the government's ability to manage money, and making it distributed…
Comment linking /blog/2014/02/11/on-the-matter-of-bitcoin/
on “PayPal’s Braintree Embraces Bitcoin, One-Touch Payments”Submitted Please Don't Change the World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy day-job role is pharmacist. Although 'Pharmacy Manager' is a more accurate[1] description of what I do. I also work as remote sys-admin for a couple of US-based startups. Add to that I'm studying for my final MDPharm exam(!). My side-projects are argosnap[2] and on a RoR application which came out of the need for an application to manage/keep track of customers credit and I'm planning to make a SaaS out of it. [1…
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on “Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?”Submitted Microsoft Windows 8 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe most disturbing thing about Pebble is the lack of proper UTF-8 support[1]. The most positive is of course the notifications: I leave my phone at a desk when I'm at work, far and away from me and still get all the notifications in the world, never missing a phone call. [1] http://www.convalesco.org/blog/2013/03/05/the-pebble-experie...
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/05/the-pebble-experience/
on “Pebble Smartwatch Review: A Useful Dumbwatch”Submitted The Privacy War as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRegarding docker: 0. Understand the use-case: What's the point of using docker for dev, production, etc. Read about the 12-factor app by Heroku. 1. Make sure you understand why ppl use init systems vs launching multiple processes inside a container 2. Why ppl use a container vs a VM 3. Can you run windows on a docker daemon running on linux host? If yet how? If not why? Can you run a linux container on a mac host? I…
Comment linking /articles/2016/11/10/a-quick-overview-sql-vs-nosql.html
on “Ask HN: Learning material for basic level knowledge about Docker, AWS and NoSQL”Submitted The MacOSX war of text editors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post[1] a long time ago. Someone post it on HN and for some reason(?) made it to the frontpage. When I checked by website records (a week later) I saw a HUGE spike in traffic. My blog is very low volume 50-100 visits per day... so that spike in the graph dwarfed every other day displayed. I bit the bullet and joined the community. It has surely paid off as it kick-started my remote career. [1] https:/…
Comment linking /articles/2013/02/01/the-macosx-war-of-text-editors.html
on “Ask HN: How did you FIRST discover HN?”Submitted Memorizing the organic chemistry functional groups on a soccer field as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBitbucket for private repositories or create your personal git repo in 10 minutes[1], a VPS server cost 5 USD/month and there are dozens of free solutions nowadays. If you're a lone dev, you can use 'tig' a command line tool to visualize git flow. Otherwise, Gitlab or one of the dozen lightweight httpd front-ends will do the job. [1] 2009 blog post: https://www.convalesco.org/articles/2009/07/24/how-to-set-up...
Comment linking /articles/2009/07/24/how-to-set-up-a-personal-git-repository-in-10-minutes/
on “Ask HN: Where do you store your side projects?”I don't write as much as I'd like to lately. It's a very low traffic blog, mind you. My best post traffic-wise is an analysis of a Greek poem/song. The one I like most though, is the one below: http://www.convalesco.org/ http://www.convalesco.org/articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-ch...
Comment linking /articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-change-the-world/
on “Ask HN: Can you share your blog? What is your best article?”yeah, I mean Georgia and geek topics do not "marry" that well imho =) I checked out your blog btw and I have to say that I loved this post: http://www.convalesco.org/articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-ch... couldnt agree more
Comment linking /articles/2014/04/22/please-dont-change-the-world/
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite web font for long texts?”I've wrote an article in 2014 to answer some of your questions[1]. More specifically, on the value of bitcoin as a currency and where the value comes from: --- 3.2 the currency Bitcoin was introduced to the general public as a cryptocurrency in 2009. Apparently bitcoin was introduced as an alternative to FIAT currency for online payments. But there is a fundamental design decision that makes, bitcoin as a currency,…
Comment linking /essays/2014/02/11/on-the-matter-of-bitcoin.html
on “Ask HN: Is buying a cryptocurrency a bet that the currency will be “legitimate”?”
