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Oliver Leaver-Smith
Personal blog · ols.wtfsystemsprogramming
Oliver Leaver-Smith's personal blog at ols.wtf covers systems and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on DNS TXT records, with a commenter pointing to the blog's URL shortener post, which uses DNS as its storage mechanism. The comments say little about the writing itself.
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.
Oliver Leaver-Smith (ols) is a reliability operator, writer, speaker, rugby coach, and general fixer from Sheffield. Thoughts on systems, leadership, operations, and making complex things behave
What Hacker News says?
Messing with DNS is so fun. I did a lightning talk on storing secrets in DNS [1] for my vpn tokens and also have a URL shortener that uses DNS as its storage mechanism [2] [1]: https://youtu.be/CpWM_eVfRBM?si=uj3qVLcW_56FdQ8Y [2]: https://ols.wtf/url-shortener.html
Comment linking /url-shortener.html
on “Fun with DNS TXT Records”Submitted Orgy: My Personal Technology Stack as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted /dev/greet: Invading Kernel Space as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A URL shortener with an interesting storage back end as a story · 1 points
HN discussion