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Jonathan Petitcolas
Personal blog · jonathan-petitcolas.comprogrammingweb
Jonathan Petitcolas's personal blog at jonathan-petitcolas.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Converting an Image into ASCII Art Masterpiece (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link this blog for its tutorial on serving a custom domain over HTTPS with GitHub Pages behind Cloudflare, and note the flexible-SSL gap it describes.
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.
Personal blog of Jonathan Petitcolas — full-stack web developer, open-source contributor, and speaker.
Most-linked posts?
- Converting an Image into ASCII Art Masterpiece (2017)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-12-28
- /2017/01/13/using-https-with-custom-domain-name-on-github-pages.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-21
What Hacker News says?
Also: > Using flexible SSL, all communications between CloudFlare servers and GitHub ones are not encrypted. Not really secured, even if your domain would be served in HTTPs. [1] [1]: https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-w...
Comment linking /2017/01/13/using-https-with-custom-domain-name-on-github-pages.html
on “A Letter from the Publisher of Nautilus”Submitted Importing a Modeled Mesh from Blender to Three.js as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThere are workarounds for this, but as I understand it GitHub won't validate an SSL cert for a custom domain. I found this tutorial [1] very helpful when setting up my own site [2] (which you can see is HTTPS and served by GitHub Pages [3]). [1] https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-w... [2] https://oisinmoran.com/ [3] https://github.com/OisinMoran/OisinMoran.github.io
Comment linking /2017/01/13/using-https-with-custom-domain-name-on-github-pages.html
on “A Letter from the Publisher of Nautilus”Submitted How-to dump your Docker-ized database on Amazon S3? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's possible but not very straightforward. Reference for anyone else trying to setup ssl cert for github pages: https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-w...
Comment linking /2017/01/13/using-https-with-custom-domain-name-on-github-pages.html
on “Jenkins X: a CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes”Submitted Forging JSON Web Token in JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing binary file in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci sequence generator written in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding out slowest tests of your PHPUnit test suite as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting an Image into ASCII Art Masterpiece (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting an image into ASCII art in JS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Picture from Webcam Using HTML5 Canvas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plugging Webpack to Jekyll Powered Pages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webpack HTML plug-in in a Nutshell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transpiling EcmaScript6 Code to ES5 Using Babel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting an Image into ASCII Art Masterpiece (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting an Image into ASCII Art Masterpiece (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Jest Through Practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internationalizing a React Application Using Polyglot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How-To Setup Webpack on an ES6 React Application with SASS? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improve your Linux battery life with tlp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Morse encoder with Arduino as a story · 1 points
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