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Ryan Winchester

Personal blog · ryanwinchester.ca/postsprogrammingwebsecurity

Ryan Winchester's personal blog at ryanwinchester.ca covers programming, web and security. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Stop forcing your arbitrary password rules on me.”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

I’m Ryan, a software developer and entrepreneur based in Atlantic Canada. I’m usually employed full-time working on interesting projects at interesting companies. In my spare time I like to work on open-source projects.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Stop forcing your arbitrary password rules on me.
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. bemmu · 2015-10-24

    Submitted Stop forcing arbitrary password rules as a story · 333 points

    HN discussion
  2. bpierre · 2016-11-23

    Submitted Stop forcing your arbitrary password rules on me. as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. ryanwinchester · 2017-05-10

    Submitted Intro to Elixir for non Ruby programmers (A PHP and JavaScript perspective) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. stalfosknight · 2021-03-23

    Submitted Stop forcing your arbitrary password rules on me as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Halienja · 2016-09-08

    Submitted Stop forcing your arbitrary password rules on me as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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