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Lee Holmes
Personal blog · leeholmes.com/blogprogrammingsecurity
Lee Holmes writes Precision Computing, a personal blog at leeholmes.com about programming and security. Since 2011, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Security Risks of Postman”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Precision Computing - Software Design and Development
Most-linked posts?
- Security Risks of Postman3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-01
- PowerShell and HTML5 Prototype3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-01
What Hacker News says?
"According to NASA, the 3 computers aboard the Hubble Space Telescope contain over 50,000 lines of code in the C and Assembly programming languages." https://www.leeholmes.com/writing/hubble.pdf I am going to go out on a limb here and post my diagnostic: There is some global counter that overflow as the system was not rebooted for a while...NASA...take it from here :-)
Comment linking /writing/hubble.pdf
on “NASA can't figure out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope”Submitted Efficiently Generating Python Hash Collisions as a story · 101 points
HN discussionhttp://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2011/04/01/powershell-and-html... I'd been waiting all day for this to happen to me. It took until 4:20 PM.
Comment linking /blog/2011/04/01/powershell-and-html5/
on “Collect HN: Aprils Fools”Submitted Client IP address disclosure in smtp.gmail.com as a story · 41 points
HN discussionhttp://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2011/04/01/powershell-and-html...
Comment linking /blog/2011/04/01/powershell-and-html5/
on “Collect HN: Aprils Fools”Submitted Downloading Plain-Text Wikipedia as a story · 8 points
HN discussionPowershell is frankly fairly amazing. Recently I found myself needing to open the Windows datastore.edb file, and before I discovered some interops I learned that in fact you can grab a C# member definition, then use it as a signature and load that type as a Powershell object [1] Hell, I even found a C# code snippet and was able to add into a Powershell string, then add this as a C# type definition, and Powershell c…
Comment linking /blog/2009/01/19/powershell-pinvoke-walkthrough/
on “Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?”Submitted Security Risks of Postman as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Searching for Content in Base-64 Strings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Risks of Postman as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Risks of Postman as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WebSockets from Scratch in Powershell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastodon Engagement Viewer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interactive Rosetta Stone Transcription Explorer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Statique: Simple Self-Hosted Comments for Static Websites as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Repairing a NatureBright SunTouch Plus (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PowerShell and HTML5 Prototype as a story · 1 points
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