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Ryan Patterson
Personal blog · cgamesplay.com · on HN as CGamesPlayprogrammingweb
Ryan Patterson's personal blog at cgamesplay.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Thoughts on Dotfiles”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The only comment is about the site's appearance, calling a different page 'better' than the author's homepage. It says nothing about the writing or the topics covered.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Thoughts on Dotfiles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-01
What Hacker News says?
Notably, if you run docker-in-docker, Docker is probably not a security boundary. Try this inside any dind container (especially devcontainers): docker run -it --rm --pid=host --privileged -v /:/mnt alpine sh I disagree with other commenters here that Docker is not a security boundary. It's a fine one, as long as you don't disable the boundary, which is as easy as running a container with `--privileged`. I wrote abo…
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on “I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero”Submitted Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp as a story · 205 points
HN discussionYes! I play a “bonk” sound when a command in my terminal fails. Helps me break out of autopilot up-enter-up-enter loops that I can do accidentally. I wrote a blog post about it a while back: https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/12/09/iterm-notifications/
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on “Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?”Submitted Useful Notifications in iTerm2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOff topic, looks better than https://cgamesplay.com/
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on “Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers”Submitted Writing iTerm2 Python Scripts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI hear that `terminal-notifier` is pretty much dead and a better replacement with new MacOS APIs is [0]. In any case, I opted against it because iTerm actually supports this natively, in addition to a few other neat features, and it will work over SSH. I wrote about my solution here [1]. [0] https://github.com/sheagcraig/yo [1] https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/12/09/iterm-notifications/
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on “Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal”Submitted Ephemeral Servers on Hetzner as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you want this to work over SSH, you'll need a different approach. I wrote an article about getting sounds from iTerm2 over SSH a while back: https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/11/25/iterm-plugins/#playin... Then it's just a simple Claude code hook to play whatever sound: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/0fd07aea4863b581...
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on “Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code”Submitted Stop using em in media queries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configuring Prettier and ESLint as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Dotfiles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Dotfiles as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easily creating charts in Jekyll as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Webapp Builder to manage static assets in Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing CLIs with Scrut as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating an SSH Session with Python as a story · 1 points
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