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John Panzer
Personal blog · abstractioneer.orgprogrammingsecurityweb
John Panzer's personal blog at abstractioneer.org covers programming, security and web. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Panzer's blog (written independently of his Google job) as a source on web discovery and webfinger, and as a counterpoint in the XAuth debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Epistolary ramblings about technology & software development
What Hacker News says?
Although I agree with Eran, in the interest of balance let me also link to John Panzer (of Google, but writing independently) who tries to address some of Eran's concerns: http://www.abstractioneer.org/2010/06/xauth-is-lot-like-demo...
Comment linking /2010/06/xauth-is-lot-like-democracy.html
on “XAuth – a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea”Submitted How to use your own site as an OpenID using your Google Profile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOther good links for learning about webfinger are http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ and http://www.abstractioneer.org/2009/04/personal-web-discovery... .
Comment linking /2009/04/personal-web-discovery.html
on “Ask HN: Whatever happened to finger?”Submitted XAuth is a Lot Like Democracy as a story · 1 points
HN discussion