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Sam Whited
Personal blog · blog.samwhited.comsecurityprogrammingweb
Sam Whited writes SamWhited|blog, a personal blog at blog.samwhited.com about security, programming and web. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “What's Wrong with XMPP? (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Whited's posts as see-also references in discussions of XMPP and open chat protocols, such as his 'What's wrong with XMPP' post. The comments don't judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What's Wrong with XMPP? (2019)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-07
- The Dharma of Vi2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-21
- In search of XMPP perfection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-21
- Musings on the Future of Go Package Management2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-03
What Hacker News says?
Like XMPP https://xmpp.org/ ? I'm with you, and I didn't mind XMPP (having implemented a Jabber server before, it wasn't all bad) Same deal with IRC (which I think is the best protocol wise). They all suffer from the same problem: the openness of the standard is not data collection inclusive. The upside is better privacy, the downside is its incredibly hard to fight spam in such wide open systems. Also, for a the br…
Comment linking /2019/02/whats-wrong-with-xmpp/
on “U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says”Submitted Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google as a story · 442 points
HN discussionI used to use my blog for photography, but these days it's mostly just occasional thoughts and the picture part is largely unused or something meant to illustrate the article and not one of my photos, but the design still revolves around each post having an image: https://blog.samwhited.com/
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Mellium (XMPP in Go) Year in Review as a story · 9 points
HN discussionXMPP is still alive (= there is a community maintaining protocol, clients and servers). I am using XMPP exclusively for chat since about one year, pulling in most of my friends. It seems that if users do not demand the usage of Internet Standards like XMPP we will be stuck with corporate walled gardens forever. See also: https://blog.samwhited.com/2019/02/whats-wrong-with-xmpp/
Comment linking /2019/02/whats-wrong-with-xmpp/
on “Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust”Submitted The Dharma of Vi as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Wrong with XMPP? (2019) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted XMPP in Go as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mux, a Go HTTP router with typed parameters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluating (Small) Cloud Providers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted XMPP Addresses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go and Sum Types as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted In search of XMPP perfection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why college was the costliest mistake I ever made as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Wrong with XMPP? (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mellium.im/cli: Overview of a Simple CLI Library in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dharma of Vi – SamWhited | blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Musings on the Future of Go Package Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Musings on the Future of Go Package Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I think libraries should not charge for Internet (an open letter) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to actually make XMPP competative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I compute as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In defense of weapons carry on college campuses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Considering a Wireless Internet Service Provider as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supporting Go Modules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dharma of Vi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enabling TLS 1.2 and disabling insecure ciphers in Firefox 19–26 as a story · 1 points
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