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Nerderati

Personal blog · nerderati.com · on HN as jperrasprogrammingsystems

Nerderati is a personal blog at nerderati.com about programming and systems. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Simplify your life with an SSH config file”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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23mentions?
17HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Nerderati for its guide to simplifying SSH with ~/.ssh/config, which commenters cite as a reference for SSH setup and connection management.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I primarily yell at code. Well, I look sternly in its general direction, gently urging it to do my bidding.

The author on HN?

jperras · 1,925 karma · member since 2008

I'm a failed physicist turned software developer. Life is weird like that. I sometimes say intelligent things on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@malware I write about things that interest me at https://nerderati.com [ my public key: https://keybase.io/jperras; my proof: https://keybase.io/jperras/sigs/MiFx-5FlZM7UAxXxqEUihKkwRawBofkeg7q7wD4NmfE ]

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. Simplify your life with an SSH config file
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-10-02
  2. Tracing the evolution of a Python function with Git log
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-26
  3. Timezone-naive datetimes are one of the most dangerous objects in Python
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-16
  4. Simplify Your Life with an SSH Config File – Nerderati
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-03-02
  5. /2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. > .ssh/config Do you mean this or something not described there? https://nerderati.com/2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-...

    Comment linking /2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

    on “SSH Examples, Tips and Tunnels”
  2. Submitted Simplify your life with an SSH config file as a story · 330 points

    HN discussion
  3. I agree with you, having the ability to script everyday tasks is awesome, though however in the case of the ssh wrapper it might be a little overkill, given that you can achieve the same (and more) with a ssh_config file [1] [2]. I would particularly recommend the ControlMaster option. [1] http://nerderati.com/2011/03/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-... [2] http://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config

    Comment linking /2011/03/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

    on “Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix”
  4. Submitted GitHub is forcing me to change my username, and will not tell me why as a story · 79 points

    HN discussion
  5. >Was the whole password to SSH key switch annoying at all for anyone else? Never was an issue for me because I'd always been using keys in the first place. I imagine it's less common for folks who don't manage servers, but all of my prior ssh usage had switched to keys over a decade ago. >Like procedurally its simple but I have a bunch of accounts, a bunch of different repos. Definitely recommend looking into creati…

    Comment linking /2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

    on “Improving Git protocol security on GitHub”
  6. Submitted Timezone-naive datetimes are one of the most dangerous objects in Python as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  7. I've been working on customized EC2 instances, DO droplets and Nitrous ( https://pro.nitrous.io ) since 2012 and haven't looked back. There is the issue of connectivity, but I'm unproductive without an internet connection so it has worked well for me. I use tmux and then connect to the session from work, home, etc... and setup ssh config ( http://nerderati.com/2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-s... ) so I have s…

    Comment linking /2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

    on “Ask HN: How do you keep your multiple workstations in sync?”
  8. Submitted Simplify Your Life With an SSH Config File as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  9. eranation · 2015-03-02Recommends
    Yep. 100% with you on that one. And it's not that hard to setup. I found this as a great resource: http://nerderati.com/2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-s...

    Comment linking /2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

    on “Show HN: S – a tool for ssh like z for cd”
  10. Submitted Tracing the evolution of a Python function with Git log as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  11. iuguy · 2013-05-21Recommends
    I hate to be snarky but having read through the code this really isn't a big thing. It's a tool for people that can't use .ssh/config. Manage your SSH like a boss? Perhaps, but only in the pointy-haired can't-read-man-ssh_config boss sense of the word. For those that don't want to install a script and would prefer to understand the tools they already have try this: http://nerderati.com/2011/03/simplify-your-life-wit…

    Comment linking /2011/03/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

    on “A command line tool to manage your ssh connections”
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  14. Submitted A Python Epoch Timestamp Timezone Trap as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted Tracing the evolution of a Python function with Git log as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Tracing the evolution of a Python function with Git log as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted A Python Epoch Timestamp Timezone Trap as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Simplify Your Life with an SSH Config File – Nerderati as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Tracing the evolution of a Python function with Git log -L as a story · 1 points

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