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Passing Curiosity: Latest posts is a personal blog at passingcuriosity.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the author's dnsmasq post for setting up wildcard local development domains on OS X. Another comment links a Haskell reading-process post. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-04-22
What Hacker News says?
Personally I'd prefer .dev for local development ala http://passingcuriosity.com/2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/ . Let's petition Apple to make this default in OSX. Game, set match.
Comment linking /2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/
on “Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web”Submitted Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X as a story · 46 points
HN discussionOr, as I posted elsewhere in this thread, just setup dnsmasq for a very straightforward way to wildcard an entire TLD to 127.0.0.1. See [1] for setup details on OS X, which should be easily adaptable to other *nixen. [1] http://passingcuriosity.com/2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/
Comment linking /2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/
on “Give HN: *.til.io resolves to 127.0.0.1”Submitted Extending Lua in C as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'll recommend using dnsmasq plus some local resolver configuration to set up your own host-local magic domain, eliminating the need for reliance on a third-party magic domain. Pow[1] by the Basecamp folks provides a nicely packaged version of dnsmasq tooling for Rack & Rails apps. See also, the guard-pow and powder gems which make using Pow even nicer. For other cases (and the DIYers among us) Thomas Sutton wrote u…
Comment linking /2013/dnsmasq-dev-osx/
on “Give HN: *.til.io resolves to 127.0.0.1”Submitted Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://passingcuriosity.com/2015/haskell-reading-process-sa... https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.12.0.0/docs/GHC-I... None of this looks immutable.
Comment linking /2015/haskell-reading-process-safe-deadlock/
on “Object-Oriented Programming – The Trillion Dollar Disaster”