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PRINT HEAD
Personal blog · cyberelk.net/timprogrammingsystems
PRINT HEAD is a personal blog at cyberelk.net about programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for its software pages, such as the portreserve tool for reserving network ports. The one comment only points to that page as a resource for cases where ports are needed.
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.
What Hacker News says?
For the most common case of lots of users needing ports (web apps), there's the option in nginx and newer Apache versions to proxy to a UNIX socket, so no port is needed for the user app. It's not gonna work for everything but many web app servers are fine with using a socket instead of a port. There's also http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/portreserve/ for when ports are really needed (not as elegant as the solution…
Comment linking /tim/software/portreserve/
on “Bind broker”Submitted Patchutils as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing printerd, a modern print spooler for Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussion