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Mika Epstein

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Mika Epstein writes Half-Elf on Tech, a personal blog at halfelf.org about programming and career. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this post as an example of doubt about Cloudflare, questioning what it does beyond marketing compared with real CDNs. The linked post is titled 'I don't understand CloudFlare'.

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.

Mika “ipstenu” Epstein is otherwise known as the WordPress Half-Elf Rogue. This is her blog about code, open source technology, open data, and mindful development practices.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Related to CloudFare, I know what a real CDN is, but I'm not sure what cloudfare does useful at all, ex: http://halfelf.org/2013/i-dont-understand-cloudflare http://pergento.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/cloudflare-slowed-d... http://amix.dk/blog/post/19627 Like they tell you to use CloudFare w/ a CDN. what? It appears that they are a good marketing company, and OK tech, but not clear to me what. Compare it to real CDN F…

    Comment linking /2013/i-dont-understand-cloudflare

    on “Russian government threatens to block CloudFlare”
  2. Submitted When It's (Not?) Burnout as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Looking Back at MovableType (2016) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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