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Dave Steele
Personal blog · davesteele.github.iosystemsprogramming
Dave Steele's personal blog at davesteele.github.io covers systems and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Steele's GitHub Pages posts: a ground-up explanation of GnuPG (anatomy and intermediate GPG posts) and the comitup project page for configuring WiFi on small devices. The comments only link them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Linux Musings. Things to remember/rant about.
What Hacker News says?
Dave Steele's blog: https://davesteele.github.io/gpg/2014/09/20/anatomy-of-a-gpg... https://davesteele.github.io/gpg/2015/08/01/intermediate-gpg...
Comment linking /gpg/2015/08/01/intermediate-gpg/
on “Ask HN: Is there a “ground-up” explanation of PGP/GnuPG?”Submitted Anatomy of a GPG Key(2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCould use https://ipgeolocation.io to provide it however still requires configuring an API key like if the little airplane “radar” had a backend it could reach. For WiFi configuration, could use something like comitup [1]. Put together that would eliminate the need to login to the device. 1. http://davesteele.github.io/comitup/
Comment linking /comitup/
on “An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk”