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Stephen Harris
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Stephen Harris writes Ramblings of a Unix Geek, a personal blog at sweharris.org about systems, security and programming. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Stephen Harris's posts cover self-hosting and Docker. One commenter links his 2017 post on Docker container placement with node labels, as an example for a single-node swarm setup.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stephen Harris technical blog with focus on security and Unix
What Hacker News says?
I am running one-node swarms, so everything I deploy is running on the same node. But from my understanding you can apply labels to the nodes, and limit the placement of containers. See here for an example (I am not affiliated to this site): https://www.sweharris.org/post/2017-07-30-docker-placement/
Comment linking /post/2017-07-30-docker-placement/
on “Self-Hosting like it's 2025”Submitted Multi-factor authentication isn't necessarily strong as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on 'Docker in production' as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a home router (2024 edition) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Historical Java (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT and Calculators: What do we value? as a story · 1 points
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