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Erethon's Corner
Personal blog · blog.erethon.comsecuritysystems
Erethon's Corner is a personal blog at blog.erethon.com about security and systems. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “What happens when a Matrix server disappears”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post arguing that modern CI is too complex and misdirected. One commenter discusses using bash as the CI language so the same logic runs locally and on sourcehut and GitHub Actions.
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.
Sharing my thoughts on Decentralization, Security and Operations.
Most-linked posts?
- What happens when a Matrix server disappears2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-23
- How NixOS Is Built2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-01
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.erethon.com/ Hugo based blog with a custom theme https://github.com/Erethon/hugo-HackThePlanet-theme .
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted How NixOS Is Built as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBTW if you follow the philosophy of using bash as your CI so it runs locally (mentioned by several people in this thread), then you can use the same CI logic on sourcehut and Github Actions. Both of them provide VMs where you can run anything, and bash is of course there on every image. We do that for https://oils.pub/ sourcehut yaml: https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/tree/master/.builds github yaml: https://git…
Comment linking /blog/2025/07/31/how-nixos-is-built/
on “Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)”Submitted What happens when a Matrix server disappears? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.erethon.com/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted What happens when a Matrix server disappears as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.erethon.com/ I try to blog about things that I feel I have a good understanding and get into details. Examples: - https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2023/06/21/what-happens-when-a... I recently had my Matrix server die on me and this documents my journey on bringing it back from the dead. - https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2022/07/13/what-a-malicious-ma... An exploration on the powers of a malicious admin in Ma…
Comment linking /blog/2019/11/06/infrastructure-as-code-without-using-the-cloud/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”