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Derek Seaman
Personal blog · derekseaman.comsystemshardwareprogramming
Derek Seaman's personal blog at derekseaman.com covers systems, hardware and programming. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “My journey for dual displays with my M1 Pro Mac (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Derek Seaman's guides on home automation and Pi-hole DNS setup, such as redirecting hard-coded DNS on a Ubiquiti or EdgeRouter. The comments cite them as how-to references without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Derek Seaman's Tech Blog
Most-linked posts?
- /2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-to-pi-hole-using-ubiquiti-edgerouter.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-01
- My journey for dual displays with my M1 Pro Mac (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-04
What Hacker News says?
Yes! https://www.derekseaman.com/2025/11/home-assistant-hacking-y... https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1vow96e/amaz... https://lee-soft.com/replacing-alexa-with-claude/
Comment linking /2025/11/home-assistant-hacking-your-echo-show-5-and-8.html
on “Apple HomeView”Submitted My journey for dual displays with my M1 Pro Mac (2021) as a story · 110 points
HN discussionThis is it! I’ve been using it for about 3 years now. The DNSMasq blacklist package has a command line to add other blocklists (but you come up with your own name for this list - couldn’t get this in my head when I was first setting it up). Limitations over Pihole is that there no regex and no pretty UI. I’ve also set up firewall rules to redirect DNS traffic, but not sure how effective this is with DoH becoming mai…
Comment linking /2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-to-pi-hole-using-ubiquiti-edgerouter.html
on “Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole”Submitted Proxmox VE 8.2: Windows 11 vGPU (VT-D) Passthrough with Intel Alder Lake as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is possible with PiHole too by setting some firewall rules. Example for Ubiquiti: https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-...
Comment linking /2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-to-pi-hole-using-ubiquiti-edgerouter.html
on “Running my own DoH relay and getting Pi-hole protection away from home”MST has been a dead letter since day 1 because nobody puts a more expensive monitor controller board in a monitor than it actually needs. 4K60 monitor? cool, it gets DP1.2. So MST means dropping to 1440p or 1080p resolution (splitting DP1.2 across two monitors). crappy dell office monitor? it gets DP1.1, so MST means dropping to 720p or 540p. absolutely no company in their right mind is going to haul off and put a D…
Comment linking /2021/11/my-journey-for-dual-displays-with-my-m1-pro-mac.html
on “The first conformant M1 GPU driver”I dug into this last night and got it working with this guide: https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-... I had issues with just DNAT following some ui forum posts, and I think it's because I'm using switch0 as the interface, with devices across LAN ports on my EdgeRouter. The SNAT masquerade was the key to getting the replies from the pi-hole routed properly. I was previously using my EdgeRoute…
Comment linking /2019/10/redirect-hard-coded-dns-to-pi-hole-using-ubiquiti-edgerouter.html
on “GitHub – pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements”