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John McBride
Personal blog · johncodes.com · on HN as jpmcbprogrammingai
John McBride writes john mcbride, a personal blog at johncodes.com about programming and ai. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Binging on Bytes: The Danger of Overprocessed Engineering Content”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a 2026 archive post on security risks in automating systems, specifically authorisation and a tool being tricked into unwanted commands. The comment cites the post for its own point and does not judge 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.
john mcbride's landing page
Most-linked posts?
- Binging on Bytes: The Danger of Overprocessed Engineering Content2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-04
- There is no secure AI enclave2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-28
- Revisiting the Core-JS Situation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-13
What Hacker News says?
John here - thanks for the kind words on my piece. You can also find it here (without the substack subscription stuff): https://johncodes.com/posts/there-is-no-secure-software-supp... There was some good discussion on the /r/programming subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/zyf9rb/there_i... I would love to continue the conversation: I think it's a really important topic in the world of increasing…
Comment linking /posts/there-is-no-secure-software-supply-chain/
on “The Art of Knowing When to Quit”Submitted All your OpenCodes belong to us as a story · 3 points
HN discussionspecifically, when I talk about authorisation, I want to avoid this: https://johncodes.com/archive/2026/01-28-there-is-no-secure-... because that's a valid concern I have with automating all the things - when one of those things does something I don't want because someone else managed to slip it a command to do so, or when that thing's data is breached.
Comment linking /archive/2026/01-28-there-is-no-secure-ai-enclave/
on “nvm”Submitted There is no secure software supply-chain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tapes: transparent AI agent telemetry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross Compiling CGO with Dagger and Zig as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Software Cambrian Explosion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dopamine Driven Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Binging on Bytes: The Danger of Overprocessed Engineering Content as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Job Scheduling with Tmux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4B Go If Statements as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaky Go Channels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DDD: Dopamine Driven Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is no secure AI enclave as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gas Town is a glimpse into the future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI code is like sushi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is an AI Agent? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Binging on Bytes: The Danger of Overprocessed Engineering Content as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prestige over Influence: Choosing a More Impactful Online Presence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting the Core-JS Situation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting the Core-JS Situation as a story · 1 points
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