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May Contain Traces of Bolts
Personal blog · blog.des.nosystemssecurity
May Contain Traces of Bolts is a personal blog at blog.des.no about systems and security. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for an amusing post on the design process of Java's enums, offered as a contrast to Python's enum design in a thread about Python's enums.
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What Hacker News says?
Mildly unrelated, but when I think of the opposite ("imaginative" enums), the first thing that comes to mind is this amusing vignette on the design process of Java's enums: http://blog.des.no/2009/01/no-silly-its-enum/
Comment linking /2009/01/no-silly-its-enum/
on “Python's sad, unimaginative Enum”Submitted The Return of the FreeBSD Desktop as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted FreeBSD and recent glibc vuln as a story · 1 points
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