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Patshead.com Blog
Personal blog · blog.patshead.comprogramminghardware
Patshead.com Blog is a personal blog at blog.patshead.com about programming and hardware. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Patshead's posts on self-hosted cloud storage, generating more secure SSH keys, and speeding up Oh-my-zsh, usually as a reference or a follow-up question. No comment praises or criticises the writing.
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.
Random thoughts falling out of my spinning head.
What Hacker News says?
Are you referring to something like this? http://blog.patshead.com/2013/09/generating-new-more-secure-...
Comment linking /2013/09/generating-new-more-secure-ssh-keys.html
on “Upgrade your SSH keys”Submitted Building a Low-Power, High-Performance Ryzen Homelab Server to Host VMs (2017) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCould you share your experiences, for example how many files do you have on the server? I have read[0] that Seafile struggles with larger amounts of files and I was hoping to use it as a drop-in NAS replacement for businesses. [0] http://blog.patshead.com/2013/06/self-hosted-cloud-storage-c...
Comment linking /2013/06/self-hosted-cloud-storage-changing-the-plan-and-scaling-back.html
on “Clone Dropbox with a Raspberry Pi and BTSync”Submitted OpenCode on a Budget – Synthetic.new, Chutes.ai, and Z.ai as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSince the story link is just to the project github page, here's a blog post from the person who did the performance optimization talking a little more about what he did: http://blog.patshead.com/2011/04/improve-your-oh-my-zsh-star... Here's the exact pull request for that commit, with quite a bit of discussion about why it's faster and why it was done the "wrong" way before: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh…
Comment linking /2011/04/improve-your-oh-my-zsh-startup-time-maybe.html
on “Oh-my-zsh gets big performance updates”Submitted InfiniBand: An Inexpensive Performance Boost for Your Home Network (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is It Time for You to Set Up Tailscale ACLs? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Am Using Tailscale SSH and Maybe You Should Too as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboards Worth It? as a story · 1 points
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