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James O'Neill
Personal blog · jamesone111.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
James O'Neill's personal blog at jamesone111.wordpress.com covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Transcend Wifi SD Card Is a Tiny Linux Server”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link these posts on exploring Transcend WiFi SD cards, which run a Linux server and can have their firmware modified. The comments only cite or link the posts and do not judge the writing.
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.
PowerShell , Photography, Virtualization and anything else I find worth writing about
Most-linked posts?
- Transcend Wifi SD Card Is a Tiny Linux Server4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-06-27
What Hacker News says?
I looked at what you meant, and first found this article https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-... which links this article: https://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/exploring-the-t... So this is a Linux server in the size of an SD-Card that has 16 GB of storage. And Wifi. And lets clients connect to download whatever's on them. I was thinking, wow, this must be some pro photography thing c…
Comment linking /2014/03/19/exploring-the-transcend-wifi-sd-card/
on “Vocore2, a ridiculously small Linux PC”Submitted Transcend Wifi SD Card Is a Tiny Linux Server as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNeeds moaarr links for sinking time, like so: [0] https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-... Modifying Transcend WiFi SD Card Firmware (fernjager.net) Apr 25, 2014 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647434 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160509130411/http://www.fernja... [3] https://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/exploring-the-t... Transcend WifiSD / PQI AirCard / FluCard Pro, 16…
Comment linking /2014/03/19/exploring-the-transcend-wifi-sd-card/
on “Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card”Transcend made some too. I starred this blog in my feed reader, back in the day, w/ some exploration of their cards: https://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/exploring-the-t... (Having my old feed reader archives is useful! >smile<)
Comment linking /2014/03/19/exploring-the-transcend-wifi-sd-card/
on “Wireless LAN SD”