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Simon Cozens
Personal blog · simon-cozens.orgprogrammingsecurity
Simon Cozens's personal blog at simon-cozens.org covers programming and security. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Simon Cozens on PSGI/Plack”. The last post was in 2020, 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 this blog for a rebuttal in the Flash debate and a post on NHS records and surveillance in Britain. The other comment quotes a DotCloud/Perl thread and does not link the blog.
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.
Simon Cozens’ Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Simon Cozens on PSGI/Plack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-06
What Hacker News says?
My personal favorite rebuttal is this one: http://www.simon-cozens.org/content/those-darned-layers
Comment linking /content/those-darned-layers
on “Thoughts on Flash”Submitted How I got into iPhone development as a story · 38 points
HN discussion> By the way, adding some script examples for CGI::PSGI and other related modules would be much appreciated (The doc is too elliptic and assume we know already that much about the PSGI context and Plack system) The SYNOPSIS has the complete working example code that you can run with plackup, or any PSGI compatible web server - there's no much need for detailed docs about the interface since you don't need to change…
Comment linking /content/i-finally-get-psgi-and-plack
on “DotCloud releases support for Perl, aka Camel-as-a-Service”Submitted Good uses of goto as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWell, the U.K. NHS is trying to give everyone yet more access to private data: http://www.simon-cozens.org/content/nhs-records-obscurity-ma... I keep wondering how long it will be until the people of the U.K. realize whose company they are in (Russia and China), pull their heads out of their @$$, and reverse course.
Comment linking /content/nhs-records-obscurity-main-means-security
on “Can you disappear in surveillance Britain?”Submitted Simon Cozens on PSGI/Plack as a story · 5 points
HN discussion