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Personal blog · secretgeek.net · on HN as LeonBprogrammingculture
secretgeek.net is a personal blog at secretgeek.net about programming and culture. Since 2007, 66 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “DOS on Dope (2010)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- DOS on Dope (2010)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-01-17
- DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-09-06
- The Truth About Lisp3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-04-16
- The truth about Lisp (2006)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-17
- DOD: MVC Framework in Batch Scripts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-19
- Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-06
- FUV: A Real programmer's editor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-10
- Anatomy of a Domain Hijacking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-23
- How to be like Jeff Atwood2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-12
- Microsoft DOS (on Dope): Web Application in DOS Batch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-18
What Hacker News says?
Wow, Justin, cheers. It looks like the first version was available ~ mid November 2005 (via https://secretgeek.net/snapper_wins ) and available from the TimeSnapper.com domain from ~ November 28 2005. ( https://secretgeek.net/TimeSnapper_ready_at_last ) So you got in very early! The professional version was a year or two later. cheers
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on “I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen”Submitted DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need as a story · 211 points
HN discussionBelieve it or not, that's a huge improvement compared to Microsoft's past marketing endeavors. Checkout the photoshopped freaks they used for VS2008 http://www.secretgeek.net/vs2008_bugeye
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on “Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016”Submitted Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders as a story · 183 points
HN discussionA friend of mine got his domain stolen recently. He believes his gmail was brute-forced through a known vulnerability/feature when POP is enabled http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Jul/254 . He did a write up http://secretgeek.net/sg_hijack_1.asp and here http://secretgeek.net/sg_hijack_2.asp . As soon as this happened to him I turned on 2-factor auth and it works very well.
Comment linking /sg_hijack_2.asp
on “Hacked Gmail Account”Submitted DOS on Dope (2010) as a story · 181 points
HN discussionReally brilliant ! It's the only quine I know off that anybody can understand easily. If you haven't seen it the author also wrote a text adventure game in the console! https://secretgeek.net/console_log
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on “This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (2019)”Submitted How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes as a story · 122 points
HN discussionHow many monitors do you have? (: http://secretgeek.net/jat_vc.asp
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on “Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor”Submitted The truth about Lisp (2006) as a story · 120 points
HN discussionI'm pretty sure Atwood cribbed that wholesale from Jakob Nielsen's ancient advise: http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ But Atwood is truly inane in his own special way: http://secretgeek.net/jatwood_how_to.asp
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on “Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Culture inside Bing”Submitted Show HN: Spy Codes: free booklet for kids (2018) as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI made a folder based hangman game back in 2012. http://secretgeek.net/folderGame
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on “Dungeonfs: A FUSE filesystem and dungeon crawling adventure game engine”Submitted Todo list for MicroISV developer as a story · 57 points
HN discussionBut mac os versions all have numbers that go along with them in addition to the name. It's the same system used by the Linux Kernel (i.e. 5.2 / Bobtail Squid), Ubuntu (18.04 / Bionic Beaver), and many other pieces of software. Most of the time the numbers are more useful, but there are occasions where having a non-numeric designation is helpful. Apple's real naming sin is that they don't enumerate all of their hardw…
Comment linking /ex_ms
on “Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz”Submitted The Truth About Lisp as a story · 43 points
HN discussionA friend of mine got his gmail hacked - he believes through POP password brute forcing vulnerability. The person or persons who stole it used it to steal his domain. Fortunately he was able to get it back. I turned on 2-factor auth for gmail soon afterwards. http://secretgeek.net/sg_hijack_1.asp http://secretgeek.net/sg_hijack_2.asp
Comment linking /sg_hijack_2.asp
on “Hacked”Submitted FUV: A Real programmer's editor as a story · 27 points
HN discussionFrom a comment I made 2 years ago when this paper was brought up: I've been fairly skeptical of this paper ever since reading Alan Kay's rebuttal: http://www.secretgeek.net/camel_kay.asp I trust Kay much more than these authors on matters of computer science, teaching, or ideas in general. To expand a bit, I've since mentored over a dozen students and I've found that in most cases of students who couldn't program we…
Comment linking /camel_kay.asp
on “Coding Horror: Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats”Submitted 4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) as a story · 26 points
HN discussion(Blogpost with an implementation of IStashy is here — https://secretgeek.net/stashy_gist )
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on “Serialization for C# Games”Submitted Microsoft is currently developping 10 different applications to do the same damn thing as a story · 21 points
HN discussionAnd if you're stuck in the Microsoft ecosystem there is DOS on Dope: http://secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp
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on “OOP in Bash”- lt · 2009-11-30
Submitted DevShop: The Cool Game that Makes Development Look Fun as a story · 20 points
HN discussion This is remarkably similar to the site my friend Leon set up, which he artfully called "Creditcardology" - see http://secretgeek.net/cco/CCO.HTM
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on “Is My Credit Card Stolen? (A ruse to educate people about phishing)”Submitted Workflow software: I'm calling the bluff. as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSir, you are letting the intrusive thoughts win. reading the comments from the 2009 inspiration source post ( https://secretgeek.net/hexcel ) made me a bit nostalgic for the era gone by.
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on “Hexsheets: Hexagonal Spreadsheets”Submitted "Paul Graham himself was completely written in lisp" as a story · 16 points
HN discussionYeh, myself and another guy are writing a 'codesmackdown' site (source code here: http://bitbucket.org/OJ/codesmackdown ) as a side-project, not as a money-maker, entirely for fun. Life keeps getting in the way though. So far the only good thing to come out of this project is that I wrote a cheatsheet for mercurial, as I'm a noob and keen to help other noobs ;-) http://www.secretgeek.net/mercurial_flow.asp
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on “One Sure-Fire Way to Improve Your Coding”Submitted The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate as a story · 14 points
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