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Jeaye's Blog
Personal blog · blog.jeaye.comprogrammingsecurity
Jeaye's Blog is a personal blog at blog.jeaye.com about programming and security. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Finding an apartment with Clojure”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links Jeaye's post on NoScript, the browser script-blocking extension, to say that a migrated version of it is not a complete clone of the original. The comment does not assess the writing.
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.
I'm a leader, a problem solver, and a hacker with a passion for privacy and security.
Most-linked posts?
- Finding an apartment with Clojure2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-03-19
- Dear Clojure devs, use clojure.spec please2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-04
- A guide to using NoScript 10.x2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-22
- The state of code quality tools in Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-27
- Mozilla, Looking Glass, Firefox, and You2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-17
What Hacker News says?
I can highly recommend Github pages, which I use for https://blog.jeaye.com/ The HN hug of death has never brought it down, since Github handles all of the scaling.
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on “Being OK with not being extraordinary”Submitted HTTPS and the illusion of privacy as a story · 23 points
HN discussionApartment hunting with Clojure: https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/02/28/clojure-apartments/
Comment linking /2017/02/28/clojure-apartments/
on “Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?”Submitted Removing IME: Upgrading System76 Firmware for non-Debian as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've written a bit on web scraping with Clojure and Enlive here: https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/02/28/clojure-apartments/ That's what I'd use, if I had to scrape again (no JS support).
Comment linking /2017/02/28/clojure-apartments/
on “Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?”Submitted Removing IME: Upgrading System76 firmware on Arch as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recently wrote about my experience using NixOS on my VPS [1]; it's truly a very different way of approaching systems administration and Nix is at the heart of it. While I think the Nix expression language has a negative impact on usability, Nix still ends up being a net gain for not only entire OSs, but also reproducible environments for packages on many other OSs. 1: https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/07/30/nixos-revisi…
Comment linking /2017/07/30/nixos-revisited/
on “What is Nix and why you should try it”Submitted Dear Clojure devs, use clojure.spec please as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor months, I've had an issue with the native Rocket League client (which is otherwise superb), where workshop maps show up as entirely black, as described here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/252950/discussions/3/17343364... I've even tried running Steam in a Debian-based Docker container (planning a write up on this for https://blog.jeaye.com/ ), to see if having libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 around would fix the problem. Ala…
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on “Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton”Submitted Real artists ship as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, the original dev migrated NoScript, but it's not a complete clone: https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/11/30/noscript/
Comment linking /2017/11/30/noscript/
on “Firefox 60 released”Submitted Running Clojure on Google App Engine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI did a similar thing to help me land an apartment 5 years ago, using Clojure: https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/02/28/clojure-apartments/ However, my approach didn't include these map visuals; that's a great idea and a nice execution!
Comment linking /2017/02/28/clojure-apartments/
on “I need to find an apartment”Submitted The state of code quality tools in Clojure as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I wondered why there’s a reduce in clojure.core but no fold? (It’s just a different arity of reduce that’s missing the initial state.) There is literally an arity of reduce which skips the initial state. Check out `(doc reduce)`. > No tuple type? Vectors are tuples. “What if one of the vectors is of a different length?” I gasped as I clutched my pearl monads. `s/tuple` is the answer to that question. > This ties i…
Comment linking /2017/10/31/clojure-keywords/
on “A Year in Clojure”Submitted Dear Clojure devs, use clojure.spec please as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can enable HTTPS for custom domains using this approach: https://blog.jeaye.com/2016/03/01/github-pages-https/ Just be sure to delete your CNAME file, based on a recent Github behavior change.
Comment linking /2016/03/01/github-pages-https/
on “HTTPS for GitHub Pages”Submitted A guide to using NoScript 10.x as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSimilarly, the value category cheatsheet: https://github.com/jeaye/value-category-cheatsheet/blob/mast... and more info on xvalues: https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/03/19/xvalues/
Comment linking /2017/03/19/xvalues/
on “Lvalues, rvalues, glvalues, prvalues, xvalues, help (2018)”Submitted Mozilla, Looking Glass, Firefox, and You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWriting the packaging expressions should not be harder than writing the program, for the average developer. The average developer doesn't know FP, at this point. Nix needs: 1. Approachability for those not indoctrinated in lazy, declarative, functional programming (i.e. Haskell); nope, Nix Pills are not sufficient for the average dev 2. Editor tooling to help guide the writing of expressions (just as anyone learning…
Comment linking /2017/07/30/nixos-revisited/
on “We want to make Nix better”Submitted Porting a Clojure project to ClojureScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI run https://blog.jeaye.com/ on Github Pages, but I manually build with Jekyll locally, with a publish script, and then force push the built site + assets to the gh-pages branch. This allows me to use all sorts of Jekyll plugins which Github won't whitelist. I'm currently writing a post detailing how all of this works, for anyone interested.
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on “Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator?”Submitted Porting Orchestra to ClojureScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote about combining Closure and Uglify, for ClojureScript here: https://blog.jeaye.com/2016/02/16/clojurescript/ The result was about 20% savings ungzipped; 10% savings gzipped.
Comment linking /2016/02/16/clojurescript/
on “Comparing the Closure compiler to Uglify”Submitted Finding an apartment with Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real artists ship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Weechat log usage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Clojure on Google App Engine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Clojure on Google App Engine as a story · 2 points
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