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Tim Visée

Personal blog · timvisee.com/blog · on HN as timviseeprogrammingsecurity

Tim Visée's personal blog at timvisee.com covers programming and security. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Solving Advent of Code 2020 in under a second”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link project pages on this blog: a 2048 automatic solver built by a student, and a self-hosted fork of Firefox Send. The comments are bare links about the projects, not the writing.

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.

Personal portfolio and blog of Tim Visée

The author on HN?

timvisee · 1,533 karma · member since 2015

https://timvisee.com/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Solving Advent of Code 2020 in under a second
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Check this out: a student of mine made an automatic solver: http://timvisee.com/2048/

    Comment linking /2048/

    on “2048”
  2. Submitted Elegant Bash Conditionals as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  3. I put some basic ASCII art explaining concepts in my article here[1], some might like to check it out: [1]: https://timvisee.com/blog/solving-aoc-2020-in-under-a-second...

    Comment linking /blog/solving-aoc-2020-in-under-a-second/

    on “Explaining Code Using ASCII Art”
  4. Submitted Stealing private keys from a secure file sharing service as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  5. I've been self hosting a fork of Firefox Send[1] for years now, probably since Mozilla cancelled their Send project. Lately I've also started self hosting Pairdrop.[2] 1. https://timvisee.com/projects/send/ 2. https://pairdrop.net/

    Comment linking /projects/send/

    on “YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution”
  6. Submitted Solving Advent of Code 2020 in under a second as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Firefox's QuantumBar is amazing stuff! One of the main features why I'm sticking with the browser. Makes it super comfy. Some time back I wrote on it as well, along with some extra goodies: https://timvisee.com/blog/firefox-tricks-quantumbar/

    Comment linking /blog/firefox-tricks-quantumbar/

    on “Firefox Address Bar Tips”
  8. Submitted Fix Windows 10 terminals, use a Linux terminal with WSL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Solving Advent of Code 2020 in under a second as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Solving Advent of Code 2020 in under a second as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted PoC: Snippet to correctly capitalize names in PHP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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