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Herb Caudill

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Herb Caudill's personal blog at herbcaudill.com covers programming and web. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Show HN: Identity and Authority Without Servers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a prior attempt at local-first authentication and access control, with an associated readme. The comment cites it as background alongside other local-first articles.

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.

Herb Caudill's personal site

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: Identity and Authority Without Servers
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Maybe you're missing some other context. Here's an article about local-first software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ Here's an article about why you might want this: https://medium.com/all-the-things/a-web-application-with-no-... Here's another article about a previous attempt at solving this problem: https://herbcaudill.com/words/20240602-local-first-auth and here's the associated readme for how that tu…

    Comment linking /words/20240602-local-first-auth

    on “Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control”
  2. Submitted How to style React applications while the world burns around us (2020) as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Show HN: Identity and Authority Without Servers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Alice and Bob in Wonderland - Identity and authority without servers (2024) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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