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Martin Baillie

Personal blog · martin.baillie.id/wroteprogrammingsystems

Martin Baillie's personal blog at martin.baillie.id covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Gotchas in the Go Network Packages Defaults”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post on getting ephemeral GitHub tokens, cited as a possible approach for pushing to a registry without long-lived credentials. The only comment links it as a source.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Martin Baillie. SWE/SRE/Architect. Cloud platforms and distributed systems. Personal website surfacing contact information and technical fieldnotes.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Gotchas in the Go Network Packages Defaults
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-23
  2. Ephemeral GitHub Tokens via HashiCorp Vault
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. lloeki · 2025-08-25
    Maybe: - create a GitHub App or something that can generate transient tokens - implement some CLI that generates a token - login with that token - push See e.g: https://medium.com/@tiwari09abhi/github-app-token-authorizat... https://martin.baillie.id/wrote/ephemeral-github-tokens-via-... But I'm not even sure because GH auth system is all over the place and downright nuts in some places... e.g a fine grained token w…

    Comment linking /wrote/ephemeral-github-tokens-via-hashicorp-vault/

    on “Ghrc.io appears to be malicious”
  2. zshev · 2021-07-12

    Submitted Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  3. zshev · 2021-03-11
    I somehow find myself commenting on these threads the most on this site purely to bring up vterm . I think the combination of a well-polished Emacs (like DOOM), evil-mode for vi modal editing everywhere and critically vterm/emacs-libvterm make for a great workflow[1]. Sure there's all the regular Emacs value-adds (Org-mode, Magit, TRAMP etc.) and there's no rush to start learning them, but navigating local/remote co…

    Comment linking /wrote/evil-motion-training-for-emacs/

    on “From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)”
  4. replyifuagree · 2021-03-30

    Submitted Gotchas in the Go Network Packages Defaults as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  5. signa11 · 2021-03-30

    Submitted Gotchas in the Go Network Packages Defaults as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. zshev · 2021-10-28

    Submitted Stream, Mutate and Sign Images with AWS Lambda and ECR as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. zshev · 2021-05-24

    Submitted Ephemeral GitHub Tokens via HashiCorp Vault as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. zshev · 2021-05-04

    Submitted Git Signature Operations via HashiCorp Vault as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. masklinn · 2021-03-31

    Submitted Gotchas in the Go Network Packages Defaults as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. zshev · 2021-03-23

    Submitted Gotchas in the Go Network Package Defaults as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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