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Personal blog · nmaggioni.xyzprogrammingsystems

/dev/urandom is a personal blog at nmaggioni.xyz about programming and systems. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Hexo, OpenShift and CloudFlare – How to build an awesome static blog on the cheap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on Hexo, OpenShift and CloudFlare, covering hosting a Hexo site on OpenShift behind CloudFlare with www and https redirects. One commenter describes a simpler single-rule redirect.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hexo, OpenShift and CloudFlare – How to build an awesome static blog on the cheap
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. kentor · 2016-09-01
    Going through the same thing. He could have saved a rule. Just have "www.nmaggioni.xyz/*" redirect to " https://nmaggioni.xyz/$1" . That takes care of both http:// and https:// . Also, I'm using Gitlab pages which provides a build step after pushing.

    Comment linking /$1%22

    on “Hexo, OpenShift and CloudFlare”
  2. nmaggioni · 2016-06-23

    Submitted Hexo, OpenShift and CloudFlare – How to build an awesome static blog on the cheap as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. nmaggioni · 2016-07-06

    Submitted PocketC.H.I.P. has arrived! A collection of tweaks for the geekiest gadget as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. gk1 · 2016-08-31

    Submitted Hexo, OpenShift and CloudFlare as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. nmaggioni · 2020-12-07

    Submitted What's triggering my GitHub API rate limit? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. nmaggioni · 2016-08-20

    Submitted Kue, an efficient message queue for Node.js microservices as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. nmaggioni · 2016-06-27

    Submitted Dumpster – the making of a file upload storage engine – /dev/urandom as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. nmaggioni · 2016-06-24

    Submitted Leaving services' ports at their default values: convenience VS security as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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