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Jem Turner
Personal blog · jemjabella.co.uk · on HN as Jemwebculture
Jem Turner writes Jem's field notes, a personal blog at jemjabella.co.uk about web and culture. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jem Turner's blog for posts on WordPress theme and plugin vendor conflicts, including a follow-up on Pipdig, and for a personal post about women in IT.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
UK web developer & work at home mum - Jem Turner’s personal blog on family, fitness & work. The odd webby resource and coding nerd-out too.
Most-linked posts?
- WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-31
What Hacker News says?
Plugin and theme vendors DDOSing each other via their WP plugin code (that is, via your WP site), where one vendor is supposedly selling other vendor's plugin/theme, is a thing [1] (2019), so idk where you get the notion that things have changed ;) The whole "plugin" idea, where customization code can basically modify and monkey-patch whatever functionality it desires, has to go away, in WP and elsewhere. SGML has a…
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on “WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack”Submitted WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors as a story · 325 points
HN discussionFollowup at: https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2019/pipdig-your-questions-answ...
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on “WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors”Submitted Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence as a story · 54 points
HN discussion> Vulnerabilities always seem to be related to CGI scripts somehow. To the contrary, CGIs, running separate per-request processes, are one of the few mainstream mechanisms to create per-request isolates transparent to the host's security infrastructure and process monitoring. You have to go to great lengths to achieve similar isolation if you're starting with eg. FCGI-like multithreaded or evented dispatch in a sing…
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on “Apache web server bug grants root access on shared hosting environments”Submitted Cloudways' Cloudflare Enterprise integration is a crock of shit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou're right, I misread Joel's quote & I'm grateful he took the time to clarify. This doesn't make it any less possible. For example: http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/junk/rearrange/abs-columns-in-or... http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/junk/rearrange/abs-columns-out-o... Same CSS, re-ordered columns. Although for the record, I dislike the technique used to achieve the results. As the person above you said - just because it's…
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on “Don't Blame CSS For Your Incompetence”Submitted Geek & Gamer T-shirts Collection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI don't have a cache of the entire page, but I do have one of the image with the contest wording on: http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/junk/copy-firefox.png (The original is still available at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/images/co... too)
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on “Ten Grand is Buried Here - Microsoft Australia”Submitted Day in the Life of an Autistic CEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLink for those interested: http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/blog/im-a-woman-actually
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on “Why don't more women work in IT?”Submitted Jamie Timbre is a Grade A Fraud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOkay - friendly advice... This seems like a "new" blog. My advice is as follows: * Build up some content first. It's easy to write a first blog post, harder to write regular blog posts. Life gets in the way unless you are dedicated. If you had 10+ posts, that would have been a better start... * Writing style: You prose is readable up to a point, but use bold and italic for emphasis, because capitalisation sounds lik…
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