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Daniël's Database Blog

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Daniël's Database Blog is a personal blog at databaseblog.myname.nl about data and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Notes on Compression in the MySQL Protocol”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2014–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

One HN commenter links this database blog's post on decoding encrypted MySQL traffic, noting the technique is not limited to HTTP, as a supplement to a Wireshark TLS decryption thread.

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 blog about MySQL, TiDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and other databases.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Notes on Compression in the MySQL Protocol
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Not limited to http. http://databaseblog.myname.nl/2014/07/decoding-encrypted-mys...

    Comment linking /2014/07/decoding-encrypted-mysql-traffic-with.html?m=1

    on “Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark (2015)”
  2. Submitted Notes on Compression in the MySQL Protocol as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How to unit test your database indexes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Decoding (encrypted) MySQL traffic with Wireshark as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted SQL history lesson with Oracle V2 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Notes on Compression in the MySQL Protocol as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Using SSL with MySQL as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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