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joshcsimmons.com
Personal blog · joshcsimmons.com · on HN as jcpsimmonscultureprogrammingproductivity
joshcsimmons.com is a personal blog at joshcsimmons.com about culture, programming and productivity. Since 2019, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “I Quit Shopify After Five Months”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN for a meditation practice post and for explanations of how the site's blogging system stores and injects content, cited in the 'Using Goatse to Stop App Theft' thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQMQLbgFe%2BtjDytnXtZNF1EmSdAEEQIJTE3WE9GqozlGX56wuOZCMtiu7LXmbEc%2BEhdw9WCpxgcKjA9rEsiveiQA8UR3UcdrCCIbKSXdtKnE4A%2B4Yp1FS%2BHEuAFsMIKh3X6Q0o1S6Il914BHXvtY90BFcuclLGwDoeASmgL4viE9USavaGpo4SQcOpw4hKczlIBkt%2BBM8ta4L2ZwpLBXWcoBMOegQauULPqTXKScBhbBYDR2qAgwosW4pcY3imBWrq1RFsI7ZGQrYggeytHYFSwjGZvuxSyzunUBFgAA5B6l76NNGEimppydiGhMoS0IO6KP3OQUVW2RCogWq0yrXErk8ZTR1F6PrKcz0DlkVxZ6IqLzsTEmSAzd3y7np9vdmUcOcIKChHgk5SbmItQZFDlpnlfP60nrSN0gNGggdOrEYjyFDC0ntj8coQXj1DcAKcHKuloQZa5AAd7maXZowEnsO9yc7oCVZQe%2BQWsFcnMTnuQLYlfNhCLX1M9vT%2F8yWsnTkx9T9XL4tiGeYQWrsqgh0Fslg04ChSCV%2BlNwDfWCwDOKs8Sh9BhjA5l1n3iXJkBqqSZRVNZKTQUKQIvM0GRULvRxgwWH2V0mYj9V0n0QKH8b6RIZRFsdr33shM7fIjRPKEyWi2ln%2Fx5ssz1YnG509ry6KEElYTnOFM9xSSYjRQwujHLG1%2FnsmdUI5eb1wX6mjhRJqyKE5LuKNHhS37HNRnU20YlUIJn1Of9SDcztTz3SOo%2BikQk28qmq9F6iIlCjpnsUHFxVZii5rML6VHLYuzEm4MkBO8feKuo6Y4L%2BE3TPTrBThMuYV2MvFqsaFp5tAcWFCYQpU0mlsHSWzpDBLvM0a%2BdFhclLCZLnQea2oAt0oRfpjE4x8WFgu2bOFPSa5O3LYSUllLWxR7e3DDobFnP%2BZcDqwOriya1CyWL%2BEsiuu8xrJrOSKrl4a8tPU%2FEg2eHyjBvC6%2BRRGdQmubhpW%2BHzjVLr05Pv43t8OXxtsgRsJMEv%2FBwOEDTag2EwoDew9e5B4839O843BH5SxOttCH%2B2Ct%2FYllroLwreE01YrPfFWyBvtoZb4fHGdL312k1XJ%2BvT67OV%2Ff%2FnX59HFz%2BmX1xK%2FPbt5vvrxbba4e1182u4eRh25Tn979cRtW65uvMl5d9id0ezU%2F%2B%2Frs5vL35dvIdH7i7bfDMjdlbVs7b8RUFNY9T2GnroRbfMzdnL5bb69clDYn7Ozk8hxqhxFrpZhgAWcnv1zMaTAnU1%2BpHWZFjeRVhaGBKL3mf6ZGwr6COQQU8hbGSnoFJwPU0lriE9tizwlUmcYsqRWxO9nxFrt8ZhOwmHnaDLFCImrzWWXLLQPYXyRCchJ1WuRl8TcAAAD%2F%2FwMA1onjg2UHAAA%3D5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-10-17
- I Quit Shopify After Five Months2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-07
- What I Learned from 1000 Days of Meditation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-10
What Hacker News says?
I'm sure the 1000 days of meditation he experimented with, had a lot more impact on his mind/body/soul than his Social fasting. But a blend of both for most I think would be ideal. https://joshcsimmons.com/2019/05/21/meditaton-practice/
Comment linking /2019/05/21/meditaton-practice/
on “I Quit Social Media for a Year”Submitted I Quit Social Media for a Year as a story · 509 points
HN discussion+1 to this. I will grit my teeth and go through a leetcode/coderpad step (I get it, FizzBuzz and all that) but jumping straight to the technical stuff and not giving me the decency of talking to a human leaves the impression that I'm really just a code-producing machine for the org (Which for Amazon, I no doubt expect I would be). As a recently posted article here said[0]: "My hunch with those companies was that it…
Comment linking /posts/why-i-quit-shopify
on “Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k”Submitted I Quit Shopify After Five Months as a story · 297 points
HN discussionIt's explained on this page about how his blogging system works - https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted Not everyone should meditate as a story · 231 points
HN discussionThis site allows anyone to inject content, you don't need an iframe. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/eJyVlD2PgzAMhvf8Cm8HlcD76dSlf8... Created using wget "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/snipe/5512408/raw/db9f4051eeb1079de436ec5ae9ba9aff2a99549c/gistfile1.txt" python3 >>> base64.b64encode(zlib.compress(b"<pre>" + open('gistfile1.txt', 'rb').read())).replace(b'/',b'%2F')
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted Using Goatse to Stop App Theft as a story · 132 points
HN discussionSee the explanation on the blog itself [0] [0] https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted I Went to a “Dangerous Alt-Right Rally” as a story · 35 points
HN discussionYes... https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sICIi6LmUAA3RtcC5odG1sADWMMQ...
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted What I Learned from 1000 Days of Meditation as a story · 6 points
HN discussion100%. poc: https://joshcsimmons.com/post/eNqzKU4uyiwosUvJTy7NTc0r0UtPLX...
Comment linking /post/eNqzKU4uyiwosUvJTy7NTc0r0UtPLXHNSQUxi50qnXMSi4v9EnNTNdRzMtMzStQ1ow1i9YpSc%2FPLUjU0bfShmrm4lBVKMjKLFYAoKTEFACeDHYg%3D
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted On the Absurdity of Blockchain Development as a story · 5 points
HN discussion>Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page. Problem is, the posts can contain <script> elements. So it's easy to just write a little JavaScript that removes the disclaimer at the top. See this hastily-made, immature example of mine: https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIABO8LmUC/3VT0W7aQBB85yu2QV... As it stands, this really isn't the most secure system. Something much more malicious could be…
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted I hope Web3 doesn't become Web 2.1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe author is aware. > Every post that I want to publicly claim authorship of lives at the root of this site. If you are reading a post that I have claimed it will look like this page. Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted Node People vs. Edge People as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Anything can be generated here. You could even host your own blog that uses my website as a renderer if you really wanted to. It supports markdown. > Every post that I want to publicly claim authorship of lives at the root of this site. If you are reading a post that I have claimed it will look like this page. Posts of unknown authorship have a disclaimer at the top of the page. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIA…
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted Optimizing Slack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionoh no -- it's actually vulnerable to xss...!!! https://joshcsimmons.com/post/eNpTVlaoKC5WSEnNzefisilOLsosKL... (this just injects a <script> alert but.... that's bad) just tried contacting the author via linkedin (since I don't see an email address on their site) @joshcsimmons are you around?
Comment linking /post/eNpTVlaoKC5WSEnNzefisilOLsosKLFLzEktKtFQz0jNyclX17TRhwoDAD6MDrY=
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”Submitted Some Thoughts on Apple/Google's Contact Tracing Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAAAyXMQQrCMBCF4b2neO... Doesn't need to release tools... gzip, base64 and uri encode uh huh.
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”hm... https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAA6yLmUA/wVAwQnFIAxd5ZGL7c...
Comment linking /post/H4sIAA6yLmUA/wVAwQnFIAxd5ZGL7ckFandJ/Q8VrIHo7/xytbdgek4So8AG3c2TaKevI6zaJrL9+w9VP+IhB4rpmgynIN4bacCjlz8AAAA=
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”> This blog is now STATELESS. The entire post is contained in the URL that you are visiting now. All my "blog" is now is a hard-coded main page that contains links to posts I claim authorship of. Of course the entire post is contained in each of these links. https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
on “Using Goatse to Stop App Theft”> 1) compromise some site to serve arbitrary JS 2) have it serve simple JS that requests other JS that contains the real malicious payload. So… https://joshcsimmons.com ?
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