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Mark Maunder
Personal blog · markmaunder.comstartupsprogrammingculture
Mark Maunder's personal blog at markmaunder.com covers startups, programming and culture. Since 2007, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 159 times, most often “Your Vision May Be Clouded”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mark Maunder's posts on cloud versus dedicated hosting and colocation, and his notes on a Yosemite Wi-Fi bug, WordPress security and startup traffic. Two commenters call the cloud and colocation posts good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Your Vision May Be Clouded3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-31
- OS X Yosemite WiFi Problems Analyzed with Wireshark2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-11-13
- How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-01
- How to create a startup in 10.5 hours2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-08-16
- The 10 Stages of Evolution as an Entrepreneur2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-21
What Hacker News says?
The 'sudo ifconfig awdl0 down' trick does not seem to solve the issues I have on Yosemite (described here BTW http://markmaunder.com/2014/11/13/os-x-10-10-yosemite-wifi-p... ): TCP Retransmissions and TCP Dup ACK.
Comment linking /2014/11/13/os-x-10-10-yosemite-wifi-problems-analyzed/
on “WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue”Submitted It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how. as a story · 325 points
HN discussionTimthumb is how Wordfence came about because my own site was hacked via the vulnerability when it was an 0day and that's how I got involved in WP security. http://markmaunder.com/2011/08/02/technical-details-and-scri... Props to Ben. When I worked with him to fix timthumb I don't recall him mentioning that it was someone else who wrote the bug. There have been plenty of vulnerabilities just as bad or worse since - a…
Comment linking /2011/08/02/technical-details-and-scripts-of-the-wordpress-timthumb-php-hack/
on “Bringing Down Millions of WordPress Sites”Submitted How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS as a story · 255 points
HN discussionAgreed. Here's a good relevant blog post by mark maunder challenging the "cloud hype" - http://markmaunder.com/2011/10/31/clouded-vision/ I love some aspects of AWS, but I find it hard to trust them when it comes to the cloud vs. dedicated hosting discussion.
Comment linking /2011/10/31/clouded-vision/
on “Be Careful When Comparing AWS Costs... ”Submitted If your bank doesn’t like your startup’s blog, they may freeze your funds as a story · 151 points
HN discussionMark Maunder wrote a good blog post on colocation - http://markmaunder.com/2011/10/31/clouded-vision/ As for the California earthquake risk, one option is to colocate your servers in Dallas or somewhere with no earthquake risk. The Maunder article talks about why colocation doesn't tie you geographically to that place.
Comment linking /2011/10/31/clouded-vision/
on “Thoughts on Colocation”- d2 · 2011-08-02
Submitted Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes as a story · 128 points
HN discussion Topically enough, I just found out[1] the importance of the themes point. A wordpress theme that had been installed on my wife's blog (not even the one she was actually using) included a file for thumbnail generation[2] which had a security hole found in it in August. I just noticed that my second link goes to the same website as this article. :) [1]: http://davidlynch.org/blog/2011/12/vulnerable/ [2]: http://markma…
Comment linking /2011/08/01/zero-day-vulnerability-in-many-wordpress-themes/
on “WordPress Security: Seven Ways I Could Hack Into Your WordPress Site”Submitted Where the term "Zero Day" comes from as a story · 127 points
HN discussionIt comes down to performance and sometimes what your hardware constraints are e.g. your DB is a faster machine than your web server and you have no say in the matter. You may also benefit from precalculating stuff in the DB and storing it. I wrote this 6 years ago which illustrates the point: http://markmaunder.com/2007/07/20/how-to-create-a-zip-code-d...
Comment linking /2007/07/20/how-to-create-a-zip-code-distance-lookup-table/
on “Which is better? Performing calculations in sql or in your application?”Submitted How to Buy Bitcoin as a story · 123 points
HN discussionIn particular, I was experiencing the issue reported here: http://markmaunder.com/2014/11/13/os-x-10-10-yosemite-wifi-p...
Comment linking /2014/11/13/os-x-10-10-yosemite-wifi-problems-analyzed/
on “About the OS X Yosemite v10.10.1 Update”Submitted Bitcoin Crashing as a story · 88 points
HN discussionHe says 10.5 hours: http://markmaunder.com/2007/how-to-create-a-startup-in-105-h...
Comment linking /2007/how-to-create-a-startup-in-105-hours/
on “Feedjit Customized Widget Shows Real Time SiteTraffic”Submitted WordPress Security: Seven Ways I Could Hack Into Your WordPress Site as a story · 71 points
HN discussionI have some experience with this. My business is http://linebuzz.com/ We wrote the first line of code on April 1 and launched on May 10. We were covered as dot-com of the day on 100shiki.com in Japan and within days we had users in 15 languages on the site with no I18N support out the door. http://www.100shiki.com/archives/2007/05/linebuzz.html 3 weeks later we launched an I18N release. Our customers stuck through t…
Comment linking /2007/lessons-from-three-weeks-of-intensive-i18n/
on “The Nike Software Engineering Process”Submitted Amidst the noise and haste, Google has successfully pulled a SpaceX as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSo, you run a Wordpress blog on your own server. You make it to the front page of HN and you get a lot of traffic. Your server can't keep up. So your conclusion is to get rid of Wordpress. My guess is that you should get rid of your own server and host your blog somewhere else where they are capable of hosting Wordpress and deal with traffic spikes. If you do want to keep your own server there is plenty you can do:…
Comment linking /2009/12/01/how-to-handle-1000s-of-concurrent-users-on-a-360mb-vps
on “Why I’m Moving Away From WordPress”Submitted Does your startup pass The Sleep Test? as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a job is created as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted WTF is up with Dell? as a story · 59 points
HN discussion- d2 · 2011-08-19
Submitted DeployMint: A Git based Staging and Deployment System for WordPress as a story · 54 points
HN discussion Submitted How to create a startup in 10.5 hours as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook.com overtakes Google.com as most visited USA domain. as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you building an R&D lab or a business as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling a startup from 0 to 40 hits per second in 3 days as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to avoid being unhappy and how to find happiness. as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consider Leaving Facebook as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hidden Data in The Spanish Economic Crisis as a story · 30 points
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