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Doug's Home On The Web
Personal blog · dmuth.orgprogrammingcareer
Doug's Home On The Web is a personal blog at dmuth.org about programming and career. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Doug Muth's FUSSP pages, a satirical take on spam solutions, and a Web 3.0 post on proof-of-work spam protection. The comments mostly cite them as background on spam and crypto.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writings from a Philadelphia Software Engineer...
Most-linked posts?
- /fussp/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-19
What Hacker News says?
FYI: proof of work for spam protection has been around since the late ’90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash . Bitcoin explicitly built on top of that work. In a vacuum, it’s a nice idea, but in practice the problems are more social than technical, and such solutions as these never pan out at scale. If you’re interested in learning more, read up on the term for this phenomenon (coined because enthusiastic prop…
Comment linking /fussp/
on “Welcome to Web 3.0”Submitted Using Slack to Monitor RSS Feeds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYet another Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP) [0]. The ol' "form letter" [1] still makes me laugh every time I see it. [0]: https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html [1]: https://www.dmuth.org/fussp/
Comment linking /fussp/
on “BitBounce – Email paywall that lets you get paid to receive marketing emails”Submitted Splunking Yelp Reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI use Drupal for my legacy website: http://www.dmuth.org/ Medium for updates on my latest project: https://medium.com/septa-stats And Jekyll on GitHub pages for a side project I did awhile ago: http://www.allaboutcheetahs.info/ The reasons behind these: - Drupal: My website used to have a lot of static content, and I wanted to keep the content there while writing blog posts going forward - Medium: There's a lot of p…
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on “Ask HN: What blogging platform are you using these days?”Submitted Using NodePing to Send Downtime Notifications to Slack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHas anyone developed the bitcoin equivalent of the "Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP) Response"[0] yet? [0] http://www.dmuth.org/fussp.html
Comment linking /fussp.html
on “Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' Bitcoin Accounts”Submitted Show HN: Diceware Web App: Passwords you can remember as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Virtue of Laziness in Software Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Splunk Lab News and Updates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance of Having More Than One Backup as a story · 1 points
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