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Merlijn Sebrechts
Personal blog · merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog · on HN as galgaleshprogrammingsystemsai
Merlijn Sebrechts's personal blog at merlijn.sebrechts.be covers programming, systems and ai. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Lightweight Kubernetes Operators with WebAssembly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the post on running Kubernetes controllers at the edge with WebAssembly and WASI, alongside a code repository. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Senior researcher at imec and teaching at Ghent University. Ubuntu Community Council member. Research on cybersecurity and trust for software & AI.
Most-linked posts?
- Lightweight Kubernetes Operators with WebAssembly3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-28
- You can finally disable Snap updates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-10
- Why is there only one Snap Store?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-12
What Hacker News says?
I'm sorry you feel this is disingenuous. I really tried to explain why there is only one Snap Store from a neutral point of view. Let me know if you have any tips to make it more genuine. You are right that this has nothing to do with the dependency problems Snap solves. Snap does many things differently but this article only focusses on one to keep it relatively short. This article doesn't try to present a comprehe…
Comment linking /blog/2020-07-06-why-snap-flatpak/
on “Why is there only one Snap Store?”Submitted Why is there only one Snap Store? as a story · 175 points
HN discussionProvide a recent version of Arduino on debian-based systems ;) They're mainly useful for applications which either release too fast or too slow compared to regular distributions. The apps contain their own dependencies. Another advantage is for messy applications. I'd much rather run Wine applications inside of a sandboxed snap than pollute my base system with all the multilib stuff that's required for wine. For mor…
Comment linking /blog/2020-07-06-why-snap-flatpak/
on “Why is there only one Snap Store?”Submitted Llama's Legal Labyrinth as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSnaps can contain _any_ piece of Linux software, from kernels to the printing stack, to PulseAudio and finally desktop applications. Flatpak only focuses on Desktop Apps. For more information, see : https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2020-07-03-snap-vs-flatpak... Another big difference is that the sandbox of Snap is much more granular. Snap uses AppArmor to mediate the _existing_ Linux api's. This allows you to give…
Comment linking /blog/2020-07-03-snap-vs-flatpak/
on “Why is there only one Snap Store?”Submitted You can finally disable Snap updates as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAccording to this blogpost from 2020 [0], this AskUbuntu discussion [1], this random german blog [2] and many other search results of "canonical snap backend proprietary software", the snap backend is proprietary software. There is no official information from Canonical available (that I've managed to find), so I think we can reasonably assume all this correlating information is true. According to this Ubuntu docume…
Comment linking /blog/2020-08-02-why-one-snap-store/
on “Canonical unveils Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster'”Submitted You can finally disable Snap updates as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRepo: https://github.com/IBCNServices/wasm-operator Blog post: https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2022-09-05-wasm-k8s-contro...
Comment linking /blog/2022-09-05-wasm-k8s-controllers/
on “Adapting Kubernetes controllers to the edge – Control planes using WASM and WASI”Submitted Lightweight Kubernetes Operators with WebAssembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you prefer to read, this blogpost explains the same project: https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2022-09-05-wasm-k8s-contro...
Comment linking /blog/2022-09-05-wasm-k8s-controllers/
on “Lightweight Kubernetes Operators with WebAssembly – FOSDEM 2023 [video]”Submitted Copyleft and LGPL in Snaps and Flatpaks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you prefer to read, this blogpost explains the same project: https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2022-09-05-wasm-k8s-contro...
Comment linking /blog/2022-09-05-wasm-k8s-controllers/
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