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Jeroen W. Pluimers
Personal blog · wiert.meprogrammingproductivity
Jeroen W. Pluimers writes The Wiert Corner, a personal blog at wiert.me about programming and productivity. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on FIDO/U2F security keys, moving crossposts from X/Twitter to Mastodon (such as moa.party), and an O'Reilly Animals database post. The comments only cite these posts as support.
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.
Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests
What Hacker News says?
Maybe a Government-supplied email address that is only accessible from libraries? I would hope that libraries would have fixed IP addresses, so surely that could be factored into the authentication process? Some FIDO keys used to be able to be bought for as little as $5 ( https://wiert.me/category/power-user/security/u2f-fido-secur... ) so it shouldn't be beyond the budget of any self-respecting town/county/state?
Comment linking /category/power-user/security/u2f-fido-security-keys/
on “Librarian's Letter to Google Security”Submitted Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, it's because of the XTwitter API changes (mostly between February 2023 and February 2024). People have been crossposting to Mastodon and the fediverse for many years. In the old days you would do it with a desktop or mobile client for Twitter and Identi.ca. In the 2020s there were many server-side crossposters like moa.party. https://wiert.me/2025/05/19/moa-link-your-mastodon-account-t... Nowadays such clients…
Comment linking /2025/05/19/moa-link-your-mastodon-account-to-twitter-with-moa-bridge/
on “XCancel service is suspended until further notice”Submitted Linux performance observability tools overview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat about the database? https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now...
Comment linking /2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now-with-user-generated-content-thepracticaldev-o-rly/
on “Extracting the list of O'Reilly Animals”Submitted Use a userstyle to (Unhide? Bring-back?) All the print options in Chrome browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wish more people named Peter Sollich for what he did in the Pascal world (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embarcadero closing down their Spanish office as a story · 1 points
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