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Maarten Balliauw
Personal blog · blog.maartenballiauw.beprogrammingweb
Maarten Balliauw's personal blog at blog.maartenballiauw.be covers programming and web. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on self-hosting Mastodon, using your own domain as a handle, and a SteamOS versus Windows 11 gaming test. Comments cite these posts as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web development, .NET, C#, Azure, ...
Most-linked posts?
- Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-08
What Hacker News says?
According to some benchmarking removing the storage filters offers a mild boost when compared to adding an exclusion and you don't have the benefit of some AV protection when other processes are accessing the volume like steam etc. https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2023/11/22/test-driving...
Comment linking /post/2023/11/22/test-driving-windows-11-dev-drive-for-dotnet.html
on “Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds”Submitted Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how we should solve it as a story · 41 points
HN discussionOne more easy trick for making yourself more discoverable on Mastodon: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...
Comment linking /post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html
on “Promotion of alternative social platforms policy”Submitted Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server as a story · 35 points
HN discussion> so if you wanted to do the same with your mastodon account you are hosed I don't believe that's true: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own... Also https://masto.host/how/ and https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/8/mastodon-is-just-blogs/
Comment linking /post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html
on “Scaling Mastodon is impossible”Submitted Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYes, you can use your own domain as a handle even if you're relying on someone else's server for hosting. It's sadly a little more complicated than DNS though: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...
Comment linking /post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own-donain-without-hosting-server.html
on ““It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself””Submitted A journey towards SpeakerTravel – Building a service from scratch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replaying IIS request logs using Apache JMeter to simulate real world users as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building future .NET projects is quite pleasant as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discriminated Unions in C# as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building NuGet (.NET Core) Using Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Someone broke the Internet or why you may want to mirror your dependencies… as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple API for Cloud Application Services as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Device Bound Session Credentials in Asp.net Core as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted So, I wrote a fiction book. Meet "The Side Project" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discriminated unions in C# and .NET 11 (for real this time) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rate limiting in web applications – Concepts and approaches as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asp.net Core rate limiting middleware in .NET 7 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a supply chain attack with .NET, NuGet, DNS, source generators and more as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t use Azure Functions as a web application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making string validation faster by not using a regular expression as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring memory allocation and strings in .NET as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically strong name signing NuGet packages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure as a story · 1 points
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