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Some Natalie’s corner of the internet
Personal blog · some-natalie.dev/blogsecurityprogramming
Some Natalie’s corner of the internet is a personal blog at some-natalie.dev about security and programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, 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 this personal blog for posts about tech, talks and projects, and for a piece on how search rankings pushed a recipe site toward prose. The author calls it an outlet for writing practice.
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.
Things I’m learning, working on, or thinking about. All opinions and snark my own.
What Hacker News says?
The author has a very valid point about recipe websites. If you don't have a couple hundred words of prose and some multimedia, even if it's complete nonsense, it may as well not exist according to search engines. It's not just ad sales, though. It's also search rankings and even organic traffic. I put some family recipes on my personal (mostly tech) blog under another category in my sidebar. Taking a verbatim coupl…
Comment linking /recipes/grill-bread/
on “Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)”Submitted Container Host Shenanigans as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's good as a bluetooth presentation remote, sharing QR codes or NFC contact info at conferences, and jiggling your mouse so your VPN connection doesn't die when your laptop locks up. It was handy around the house over the holidays too ( https://some-natalie.dev/blog/flipper-at-home/ ). It's a decent multitool. :-)
Comment linking /blog/flipper-at-home/
on “Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks”Submitted Organization Costs of the XZ Backdoor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's 100% fair. Good thing it's not too difficult to assign VFIO w/i QEMU for virtual machines despite the manufacturer shenanigans. :) The Arch wiki has a great guide here - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM... It does get a little tricky if your GPUs are identical, but I've done this for years and maintain a guide for doing this (as well as the ACS-override patched kernel RPMs) for Fed…
Comment linking /blog/fedora-acs-override/
on “VirGL”Submitted Corporate proxies, meddler-in-the-middle attacks, and Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://some-natalie.dev I work at a neat intersection of tech, people, and highly regulated industries. I get to write about the things I build and talks I have done, as well as some fun projects. It’s an outlet for getting better at writing and provides a longer record of competence than fizzbuzz interview questions.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”