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Sam Whited

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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.

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27mentions?
10HN people?
2013–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

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?

  1. What's Wrong with XMPP? (2019)
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-07
  2. The Dharma of Vi
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-21
  3. In search of XMPP perfection
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-21
  4. Musings on the Future of Go Package Management
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google as a story · 442 points

    HN discussion
  3. I 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/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  4. Submitted Mellium (XMPP in Go) Year in Review as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. XMPP 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”
  6. Submitted The Dharma of Vi as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What's Wrong with XMPP? (2019) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted XMPP in Go as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Mux, a Go HTTP router with typed parameters as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Evaluating (Small) Cloud Providers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted XMPP Addresses as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Go and Sum Types as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted In search of XMPP perfection as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Why college was the costliest mistake I ever made as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted What's Wrong with XMPP? (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Mellium.im/cli: Overview of a Simple CLI Library in Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The Dharma of Vi – SamWhited | blog as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Musings on the Future of Go Package Management as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Musings on the Future of Go Package Management as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Why I think libraries should not charge for Internet (an open letter) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How to actually make XMPP competative as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted How I compute as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted In defense of weapons carry on college campuses as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Considering a Wireless Internet Service Provider as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Supporting Go Modules as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The Dharma of Vi as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Enabling TLS 1.2 and disabling insecure ciphers in Firefox 19–26 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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