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Stan's blog
Personal blog · stanislas.blog · on HN as angristanprogrammingai
Stan's blog is a personal blog at stanislas.blog about programming and ai. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Stan's blog for posts on monitoring stacks, such as Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana, and Prometheus. One commenter cites a post as an example of that stack.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about building things with code and computers
Most-linked posts?
- Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-01
- How Claude Code is helping me as an open source maintainer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-25
- My Writing Workflow with LLMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-29
- Building my self-hosted cloud coding agent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-03
What Hacker News says?
I found it very useful for proofreading. It's easier than copying/pasting the content into ChatGPT or similar, as it's right in the editor. I disabled the autocomplete though, as I found it breaks my flow of thoughts (Wrote about this: https://stanislas.blog/2025/02/writing-workflow-llm/ )
Comment linking /2025/02/writing-workflow-llm/
on “How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare”Submitted Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021) as a story · 171 points
HN discussionVery neat idea! I implemented it into my self hosted remote coding agent: https://stanislas.blog/2026/02/netclode-self-hosted-cloud-co...
Comment linking /2026/02/netclode-self-hosted-cloud-coding-agent/
on “Deno Sandbox”Submitted My Writing Workflow with LLMs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTelegraf => InfluxDB => Grafana is also a well-known stack for monitoring which I like See for example this (that also mentions Prometheus): https://stanislas.blog/2018/04/monitoring-telegraf-influxdb-...
Comment linking /2018/04/monitoring-telegraf-influxdb-grafana/
on “Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus and Grafana”Submitted Setting Up Plex Hardware Transcoding with an Intel N100 GPU on Proxmox as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI feel like the topic has been discussed ad nausiem but: * Software security - I.e. Mozilla blog post on using Mythos for software security [1] * Algorithms - AlphaEvolve makes real progress on matrix multiplication [2] * Open source - Backlog crushing in openvpn [3] * Corporate - CloudFlare Oauth workers [4] People are clearly using AI to ship real work that people end up using directly or indirectly. Projects like…
Comment linking /2025/12/claude-code-opus-open-source-maintenance/
on “Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions”Submitted Using Firecracker and Go to run short-lived, untrusted code execution jobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis one is my bad, I've exceeded the 100k free reqs/day (for https://stanislas.blog/2025/02/redirect-dead-links-hugo-imag... ), and I didn't enable the setting to bypass it over that limit
Comment linking /2025/02/redirect-dead-links-hugo-images-cloudflare-worker/
on “Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling”Submitted Adding native image lazy-loading to Ghost with a Cloudflare Worker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service · Stan's blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to setup a VPN server using WireGuard (with NAT and IPv6) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving my personal infrastructure to Kubernetes (single-node k3s) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a self-hosted cloud coding agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building my self-hosted cloud coding agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a TUI to index and search my coding agent sessions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing my cloud exit (kind of) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Claude Code is helping me as an open source maintainer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firecracker for Leetcode-style Code Grading as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a Hetzner Storage Box as a restic back end for backups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding syntax highlighting to Ghost with highlight.js as a story · 1 points
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