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Mike Tigas

Personal blog · mike.tig.as/blog · on HN as mtigassecurityprogramming

Mike Tigas's personal blog at mike.tig.as covers security and programming. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Onion Browser – Private browsing on iPhone and iPad”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mike Tigas's blog for his anti-surveillance and Tor work, including OnionBrowser, an iOS Tor browser he wrote. A comment also cites his Django and S3 notes.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Mike Tigas (@mtigas) is a technologist with fifteen years of experience at the intersection of web infrastructure, digital security, and investigative journalism.

The author on HN?

mtigas · 1,036 karma · member since 2010

https://mike.tig.as/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Onion Browser – Private browsing on iPhone and iPad
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-01-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Django has a `CachedStaticFilesStorage` storage class that you can use to store the MD5 hashed names of your processed files [1]. I use that with django-storages to store my files in S3/Cloudfront [2]. [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/contrib/staticfile... [2] https://mike.tig.as/blog/2011/12/22/django-14-first-thoughts...

    Comment linking /blog/2011/12/22/django-14-first-thoughts-cachedstaticfilesstorage/

    on “Django 1.8 beta 1 released”
  2. Submitted Pdb: Using the Python debugger in Django (A mini tutorial) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Wickr, Onion Browser, Cloak. https://www.mywickr.com https://mike.tig.as/onionbrowser https://www.getcloak.com Silent Circle as well, closed source or not, given that one of the founders is Phil Zimmerman.

    Comment linking /onionbrowser

    on “Ask a hacker: Top four anti-surveillance apps”
  4. Submitted Tor Onion Browser for iOS is now free as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Mike Tigas, the ProPublica developer who worked on the hidden service, is also the author of OnionBrowser, an iOS Tor browser. https://mike.tig.as/onionbrowser/

    Comment linking /onionbrowser/

    on “ProPublica Launches the Dark Web's First Major News Site”
  6. Submitted Onion Browser – Private browsing on iPhone and iPad as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Onion Browser: Tor for iPhone and iPad as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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