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Dan Palmer
Personal blog · danpalmer.me · on HN as danpalmerprogrammingwebsecurity
Dan Palmer's personal blog at danpalmer.me covers programming, web and security. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Learning from Board Game Design (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Personal site and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Learning from Board Game Design (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-24
- Complexify - a jQuery Plugin to ACCURATELY Gauge Password Complexity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-13
What Hacker News says?
I'm glad they've got the tech right for the actual authentication, but their email relay is still far from usable. It's limited in very fundamental ways, that will prevent many companies of any scale from using it. It's very difficult to make it work with an email service such as SendGrid, and it's limited to 10 domains you can prove ownership of, and 10 specific email addresses. I work for a company that charges us…
Comment linking /2019-07-02-on-signing-in-with-apple/
on “Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple”Submitted Write your own task queue as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSimilar to how in-app purchase/subscription fees of 30% just _does not work_ for certain kinds of business with certain kinds of margin, Sign in with Apple has limitations far beyond other social sign-in systems that mean it is a complete non-starter for certain businesses. Like us. We have Facebook sign in (appropriate for our market), but couldn't integrate Sign in with Apple because the email private relay limits…
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on “My small revenge on Apple”Submitted Information Exposure Vulnerability with Django and Memcached as a story · 31 points
HN discussion> Are you not outsourcing to an intermediary with Apple/FB/Google? This is a product decision, it gets you better security (on average), brand association that may be good for the right product/SSO combination, easier signup (at least in theory), and in many cases is necessary for integrations with those services. Using Hellō gets you better security (on average), but not as much as going direct. It loses some of th…
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on “Show HN: Hellō, a cooperative approach for online identity”Submitted Complexify - a jQuery Plugin to ACCURATELY Gauge Password Complexity as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttps://danpalmer.me/ Personal blog covering engineering and technical topics.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Trust in SaaS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAt Thread we encouraged non-engineers to contribute to the codebase and it was a broadly great experience: https://danpalmer.me/2018-01-04-teaching-non-engineers-how-t... One downside, many tools end up interacting with "active engineers", and while hundreds of dollars per month of SaaS costs per engineer is reasonable, paying that much for a non-engineer to fix a typo or tweak a config value once a month isn't grea…
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on “Opening the Codebase Up to Everyone”Submitted Achieving Full Marks on Qualys SSL Labs with Nginx as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Please Don't Buy an Electric Car" as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is this what modern web development is? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heroku Buildpack for Hammer sites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complexify: a good measure of password complexity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Password Security Strength Indicator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning from Board Game Design (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering with Code Ownership as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Journey in E-commerce Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implicit Hiring Criteria – A mental model for hiring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning from Board Game Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning from Board Game Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Panic's Status Board App – GoSquared API Tables/Graphs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unlocking Hillsborough through Full-Text Search as a story · 1 points
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