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Martin Amps
Personal blog · ma.rtin.sosecurityprogramming
Martin Amps's personal blog at ma.rtin.so covers security and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Monitoring Claude Code with Datadog”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-18, and you can follow it by feed.
British but blending in stateside for the past 8 years. Optimist, pragmatist, explorer. Love to travel, innovate and looking to share research and side projects here largely pertaining to reverse engineering and other technology related endeavors.
Most-linked posts?
- Monitoring Claude Code with Datadog2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-21
What Hacker News says?
https://ma.rtin.so - my personal blog built with hugo hosted on netlify with CI/CD setup via github actions. would like to get back to posting on it again sometime soon!
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted When HHVM doesn't work quite right as a story · 87 points
HN discussionHad a similar experience deploying HHVM at a previous company, I wrote up a blog post of the issues we ran into / how we worked around them[0]. One thing the dailymotion blog omits is hacklang which has additional features like lambdas, async support (though PHP 7 will soon?), strict typing, collections, generics and more. That said, if you're just trying to squeeze more out of an existing codebase, then PHP7 wins h…
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on “PHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion”Submitted Reverse Engineering Shopify Private APIs as a story · 33 points
HN discussionnice ship! I wrote a blog post on how to observe trends over time for a team via OTel, but I prefer your method for individual development! https://ma.rtin.so/posts/monitoring-claude-code-with-datadog...
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on “Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs”Submitted Reverse Engineering Netgear's Auth to Extend My Meural as a story · 27 points
HN discussion- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? I was a gamer - I started by making websites for my team (we were competing on clanbase.com) and then eventually I branched out into various MMOs and made bots/cheats/etc. I then began selling those and realized it was a better source of income than my job at McDonalds (I was ~17 then) and ended up sticking with it. - What are you doing at your job? I…
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on “Ask HN: How many of you are employed, self-taught SWEs?”Submitted Reverse Engineering Netgear Auth and Shape Security to add MMS to my photo frame as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: My webkit matrix implementation in 646 bytes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking games to make them better as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring Claude Code with Datadog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring Claude Code with OTel / Datadog as a story · 1 points
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