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Jamie Montgomerie
Personal blog · blog.montgomerie.netprogrammingsystems
Jamie Montgomerie's personal blog at blog.montgomerie.net covers programming and systems. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Setting up a simple home router with OpenBSD”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the developer's own account of the iPhone e-reader app that Apple banned for giving access to the Kama Sutra, in a thread about that ban.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Setting up a simple home router with OpenBSD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-02
What Hacker News says?
I recently set up an OpenBSD based router in our home and, man, it felt like a breath of fresh air. I wrote about it here: https://www.blog.montgomerie.net/posts/2025-10-11-setting-up...
Comment linking /posts/2025-10-11-setting-up-a-very-simple-but-ipv6-capable-home-router-with-openbsd-7.7/
on “Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again”Submitted Apple withdraws objection, Eucalyptus now available on the App Store as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThe developer's blog article is worth a read: http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus
Comment linking /whither-eucalyptus
on “Apple bans an iPhone e-reader because it provides access to the Kama Sutra”Submitted Setting up a simple home router with OpenBSD as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whither Eucalyptus? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted No more review copies of iOS apps that can access the Internet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on iOS Content Purchase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rescuing vintage microcontrollers part 3: Life at long last as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Made a Trailer For Our iPad Game Without Spending Any Money as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perfect Cookies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy Xcode Static Library Subprojects and Submodules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted All http://silverbackapp.com/ sales donated to saving gorillas today as a story · 1 points
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