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Mike Knoop
Personal blog · mikeknoop.com · on HN as mikeknoopprogrammingstartups
Mike Knoop's personal blog at mikeknoop.com covers programming and startups. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog only as a reference to a page of Zapier automations ('my zaps') the author built. One commenter cites it as the source of a Zapier script that forwards Hacker News mentions to alerts.
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.
Mike Knoop. Co-founder, CEO at Ndea. Co-founder, Board at Zapier and ARC Prize.
Most-linked posts?
- /my-zaps/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-30
What Hacker News says?
Learning to code and hack on TI 83+’s definitely has through lines to my career nearly 20 years later. One thing I’m particularly proud of was figuring out how to build an Assembly program workaround for TI’s “testguard” (a tool to force clear someone else’s calculator memory via link cable) in middle school: https://mikeknoop.com/upload/SafeGuard.zip
Comment linking /upload/SafeGuard.zip
on “The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists”Submitted Nobody expects ENTITY sections in XML, either as a story · 97 points
HN discussionThis thread reminded me of a draft post I've been sitting on for a while, related to ENTITY tags in XML and XXE exploits. Basically, it's really easy to leave default XML parsing settings (for things like consuming RSS feeds) and accidentally open yourself up to reading files off the filesystem. I did a full write-up and POC here: http://mikeknoop.com/lxml-xxe-exploit
Comment linking /lxml-xxe-exploit
on “Nobody expects CDATA sections in XML”Submitted #FF4A00 as a story · 76 points
HN discussionThere's actually a useful Zapier script that already does this [0]. I remember reading about it on Mike Knoop's (Zapier cofounder) blog [1]. I haven't tried it out but you should be able to hook it up to any of the alert services that Zapier integrates with. (Which is a lot!) [0] https://zapier.com/zapbook/webhook/rss/8249/hacker-news-ment... [1] http://mikeknoop.com/my-zaps/
Comment linking /my-zaps/
on “Reflecting on Steve Pavlina's 2011 post, "Why I Shut Down the Forums"”Submitted The biggest thing I learned launching Zapier (2014) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThis is a resource I put together after giving a talk at IowaConf this year ( http://mikeknoop.com/iowaconf-road-to-zapier/ ) It's huge (4,000+ words) but if you ever give a talk it could be really useful.
Comment linking /iowaconf-road-to-zapier/
on “How to Give a Talk”Submitted Nobody expects ENTITY sections in XML, either as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOh man! Who would have known my undergraduate capstone project would be so relevant? To improve accuracy of Nerf Blasters, we realized that barrel rifling had little effect. So we took a different approach. Prototype: http://zpr.io/PphB.png High-speed footage of added rotation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Y0A6IMJM8&list=SP0FF1657C0B... (all videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FF1657C0B08FAB8 ) PPT r…
Comment linking /upload/MAE4980CapstonePresentation.pptx
on “A Statistical Analysis of Nerf Blasters and Darts”Submitted A UX analysis of 22 credit card UIs – Mike Knoop as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI have one, actually! Check out the top Zap listed here: http://mikeknoop.com/my-zaps/ (it uses the Algolia search engine as a feed of posts to trigger on)
Comment linking /my-zaps/
on “Get notified whenever there’s a new top post on Hacker News”Submitted The biggest thing I learned launching Zapier (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFun memory trip. Learned assembly on those old Z80s in middle school. I had to go re-dig up SafeGuard, a program I made by reverse engineering TI's TestGuard, to stop admins from wiping your calculator memory and all your games! https://mikeknoop.com/upload/safeguard/
Comment linking /upload/safeguard/
on “Ti-84 Evo”Submitted A Year in Frontend Development as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pioneer DVR Harddrive Recovery Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chief Hole Filler as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Make 8BitDo (SN30, SN30 Pro) Work with iOS and iPadOS 13 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hack My Personality as a story · 1 points
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