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GreenAsh
Personal blog · greenash.net.au/thoughtsprogrammingweb
GreenAsh is a personal blog at greenash.net.au about programming and web. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “FastAPI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on self-hosting and dropping a VPS, and for a write-up on switching from Node.js to Go. Commenters cite these posts as sources or contrasts rather than praising them.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- FastAPI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-28
- I don't need a VPS anymore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-22
What Hacker News says?
Interesting contrast to this article[1] which was posted to HN several days ago [1] https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2022/03/i-dont-need-a-vps-a...
Comment linking /thoughts/2022/03/i-dont-need-a-vps-anymore/
on “Start Self Hosting”Submitted I don't need a VPS anymore as a story · 213 points
HN discussionThis rant of mine from ~5 years ago is as relevant as ever: http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2011/10/dont-trust-facebook-...
Comment linking /thoughts/2011/10/dont-trust-facebook-with-your-data/
on “Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think”Submitted Japan's cherry blossom: as indisputable as climate change evidence gets as a story · 88 points
HN discussionAbout six years ago I wrote about the perils of using Facebook as your primary photo store (among other things) - http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2011/10/dont-trust-facebook-... . Sad to see that so few people have followed my advice, that a tool such as this is necessary.
Comment linking /thoughts/2011/10/dont-trust-facebook-with-your-data/
on “Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries”Submitted Tolstoy as philosopher as a story · 62 points
HN discussionNode's javascript engine v8 can only run in one thread, if you want to access it from a different thread you need to take a lock (for example in Chrome / Chromium you need to take an isolate lock; each page runs it's own isolated v8 engine (read only code pages are shared, all other javascript pages (data plus read/write code pages) are private); in this sense it is very similar to the GIL in Python. So although nod…
Comment linking /thoughts/2012/11/nodejs-itself-is-blocking-only-its-io-is-non-blocking/
on “The Way of the Gopher: Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang”Submitted Sea level rise is gonna get a whole lot realer as a story · 28 points
HN discussionFascinating, I had never heard of this wall before. There are also numerous impressive and under-explored archaeological sites north east of Golestan, in modern day Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, see this overview of them that I wrote a few years ago: https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2014/10/forgotten-realms-of...
Comment linking /thoughts/2014/10/forgotten-realms-of-the-oxus-region/
on “Iran's Wolf Wall, Second-Longest in the World, Is Still Shrouded in Mystery”Submitted Ozersk: The City on the Edge of Plutonium as a story · 9 points
HN discussionhttps://greenash.net.au/rss/
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on “I don't need a VPS anymore”Submitted World Locality Transit Graph as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI did a somewhat similar bit of historical story-telling a few years ago: https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2013/04/money-the-ongoing-e... And came to pretty similar conclusions, in particular, that modern fiat money is quite worthless!
Comment linking /thoughts/2013/04/money-the-ongoing-evolution/
on “The Invention of Money”Submitted Email-based comment moderation with Netlify Functions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMakes me think that this article I wrote on my blog several years ago is more pertinent than ever: http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2010/08/boycott-gps/ Seriously, folks. Turn off the GPS, and start observing the world around you. And if you really do need route navigation, do it the old-fashioned way: study a map! (Printed or online, doesn't matter).
Comment linking /thoughts/2010/08/boycott-gps/
on “Death by GPS”Submitted On Hugo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI thought about the similarities between law and computer code several years back - see http://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2008/08/legislation-and-prog... Nice to see that Stephen Wolfram goes into much more depth than I do, about what would be required for this to happen. He's also more optimistic than I am!
Comment linking /thoughts/2008/08/legislation-and-programming-two-peas-in-a-pod/
on “Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution”Submitted Floyd-Warshall CSV Generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's what I did: https://greenash.net.au/thoughts/2022/03/email-based-comment...
Comment linking /thoughts/2022/03/email-based-comment-moderation-with-netlify-functions/
on “Static HTML Comments”Submitted Is Australia supporting atrocities in West Papua? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email-based comment moderation with Netlify Functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DNA: the most chaotic, most illegible, most mature, most brilliant codebase ever as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How successful was the 20th century communism experiment? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Python's namedtuple for mock objects in tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First experiences developing a single-page JS-driven web app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database-free content tagging with files and glob as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting MapLibre working for both native and web in Expo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts On FastAPI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FastAPI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scott Morrison is not keen on ABC interviews as a story · 1 points
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