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Paul Dowman

Personal blog · pauldowman.com · on HN as pauldowmanprogrammingcareer

Paul Dowman's personal blog at pauldowman.com covers programming and career. Since 2007, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Ruby on Rails EC2 "Appliance"”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
7HN people?
2007–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Paul Dowman's posts on sending mail from EC2 web servers, including DKIM and SPF setup, and a Rails AMI project for hosting on EC2.

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.

Paul Dowman

The author on HN?

pauldowman · 54 karma · member since 2010

http://pauldowman.com/

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. /2008/02/17/smtp-mail-from-ec2-web-server-setup/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-04
  2. Ruby on Rails EC2 "Appliance"
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-06-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. RockyMcNuts · 2012-01-30Recommends
    8. domain keys (DKIM) ? did this recently on EC2 and found these helpful http://pauldowman.com/2008/02/17/smtp-mail-from-ec2-web-serv... http://www.practicalclouds.com/content/guide/sending-email-e... DKIM on Ubuntu - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix/DKIM Microsoft SPF record creation wizard - http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/content/technologies/... not sending that much mail, but noticed after setti…

    Comment linking /2008/02/17/smtp-mail-from-ec2-web-server-setup/

    on “How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system”
  2. mattjaynes · 2007-06-21

    Submitted Ruby on Rails EC2 "Appliance" as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. iamelgringo · 2008-10-28
    Try searching for Rails EC2 AMI if you're interested in hosting on EC2: http://pauldowman.com/projects/ruby-on-rails-ec2/

    Comment linking /projects/ruby-on-rails-ec2/

    on “Ask HN: What is the easiest way to host a Rails app?”
  4. pauldowman · 2020-07-21

    Submitted Verified commits: sign your Git commits and avoid impersonation risk as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. garyrichardson · 2010-02-04
    Seconded. Also see http://pauldowman.com/2008/02/17/smtp-mail-from-ec2-web-serv...

    Comment linking /2008/02/17/smtp-mail-from-ec2-web-server-setup/

    on “Ask HN: How do you send mails from Amazon EC2?”
  6. pauldowman · 2020-05-11

    Submitted Tips for Remote Pair Programming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. jalanb · 2012-06-19

    Submitted How to convert from Subversion to Git as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. mooreds · 2022-10-04

    Submitted Working Across Time Zones as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. pauldowman · 2020-06-26

    Submitted Scaling Yourself: Meeting Hacks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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