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Seth Vargo
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Seth Vargo's personal blog at sethvargo.com covers programming and career. Since 2013, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “What I'd like to see in Go 2.0”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Seth Vargo's posts on Go, encrypting serverless environment variables with Cloud KMS, SSL certificate testing, and his wishlist for a Go 2.0. One commenter calls the Go 2.0 post a well thought out summary.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Seth Vargo is a Distinguished Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Previously he worked at Google, HashiCorp, Chef, CustomInk, and some Pittsburgh-based startups. He is the author of Learning Chef and is passionate about reducing inequality in technology. When he is not writing, working on open source, te
Most-linked posts?
- What I'd like to see in Go 2.05 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-16
- Secrets in Serverless4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-01
- Leaving Chef because of death threats for open source contributions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-27
- StackOverflow is full of children2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-07
- Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-30
- Getting an A+ on Qualy's SSL Labs Tester2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-14
What Hacker News says?
Another great resource: https://sethvargo.com/secrets-in-serverless/ Shows how to encrypt env vars with Cloud KMS then decrypt them in memory.
Comment linking /secrets-in-serverless/
on “App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime”Submitted Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson as a story · 553 points
HN discussionUseful script. A related post worth reading is "Getting an A+ on Qualy's SSL Labs Tester" - https://sethvargo.com/getting-an-a-plus-on-qualys-ssl-labs-t... Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8749931
Comment linking /getting-an-a-plus-on-qualys-ssl-labs-tester/
on “SSL certificate chain resolver”Submitted What I'd like to see in Go 2.0 as a story · 215 points
HN discussionSeth Vargo recently wrote a pretty good summary[0] of things he’d like to see changed in a theoretical Go 2.0. I don’t strictly agree with everything he says, but it’s all pretty sensible and well thought out. (Interestingly, he also critiques Go’s anemic logging options.) [0]: https://www.sethvargo.com/what-id-like-to-see-in-go-2/ Associated HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30205232
Comment linking /what-id-like-to-see-in-go-2/
on “Go Annoyances”Submitted Getting an A+ on Qualy's SSL Labs Tester as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaving Chef because of death threats for open source contributions as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaving Chef as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Berkshelf Workflow as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chef 12 drops support for Ruby 1.8, 1.9.1, and 1.9.2 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted StackOverflow is full of children as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I'd like to see in Go 2.0 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I'd like to see in Go 2.0 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets in Serverless as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carnegie Mellon, Mental Illness, and Suicide as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myths of DevOps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of Vagrant Berkshelf as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted StackOverflow is full of children (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Rails Development with Vagrant as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Myths of DevOps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Focus the address bar in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox with ⌘ + L as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I'd like to see in Go 2.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I'd like to see in Go 2.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets in Serverless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets in Serverless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cleanroom Pattern in Ruby as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit and functional testing git with RSpec as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secrets in serverless functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing Chef Resources at Runtime as a story · 2 points
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