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Simply Explained
Personal blog · savjee.beprogrammingweb
Simply Explained is a personal blog at savjee.be about programming and web. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Static Website Hosting: Who's Fastest?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link savjee.be posts as references on static site hosting performance, Fail2Ban Slack notifications, hosting a Jekyll blog on S3, and multitasking on ESP32 with FreeRTOS. The comments only cite these posts; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Taking complicated topics and explaining them in a simple and straightforward way. That's what Simply Explained is all about. My blog posts are in-depth and technical while my videos are simple & in plain English.
Most-linked posts?
- Static Website Hosting: Who's Fastest?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-10
- Benchmarking static website hosting providers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-05
- Static Webhosting Benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub, Cloudflare2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-30
What Hacker News says?
I couldn't find recent proper performance tests, only spam. This is an old one: https://savjee.be/2017/10/Static-website-hosting-who-is-fast...
Comment linking /2017/10/Static-website-hosting-who-is-fastest/
on “Ask HN: Does a static site need anything more than a simple VM running a server?”Submitted Benchmarking static website hosting providers as a story · 168 points
HN discussionI did something similar a while back but used a PHP script to send the notifications to Slack: https://savjee.be/2015/09/Sending-fail2ban-notifications-and...
Comment linking /2015/09/Sending-fail2ban-notifications-and-others-to-slack-chat-channel/
on “Slack notifications for Fail2Ban”Submitted Static Webhosting Benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub, Cloudflare as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHave you considered updating less frequently, or perhaps sending out a newsletter? That way, you can spend perhaps one day a week or every few weeks preparing stories, and then you'll have to time to enjoy life and your hobby again! Don't burn out over this. :) ~ Tech idea: host a simpler, Jekyll version of your site on S3 ( http://www.savjee.be/2013/02/howto-host-jekyll-blog-on-amazo... ). Host the source on a publ…
Comment linking /2013/02/howto-host-jekyll-blog-on-amazon-s3/
on “Ask HN: It might be time to shutter my startup”Submitted Getting started with LXC on a Scaleway cloud server as a story · 5 points
HN discussionA little bit of both. The simplest way that I like use is by creating a seperate function that you want to run asynchronously, then linking it to a callback that is scheduled to run by the FreeRTOS scheduler: https://savjee.be/blog/multitasking-esp32-arduino-freertos/ As long as you don't create too many long-running tasks and be mindful of which core is running what, it's been incredibly reliable in my experience.…
Comment linking /blog/multitasking-esp32-arduino-freertos/
on “ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors”Submitted Static Hosting Benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub and Cloudflare as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Website Hosting: Who's Fastest? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Website Hosting: Who's Fastest? AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify or GitHub? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Webhost Benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub, Cloudflare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just me and my code: “Building a serverless anagram solver on AWS” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Website Hosting: Who's Fastest? AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify or GitHub? as a story · 1 points
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