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Tom Bonner
Personal blog · blog.bonner.isprogrammingsecurityai
Tom Bonner's personal blog at blog.bonner.is covers programming, security and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tom Bonner's blog for posts on writing a Docker storage driver that uses IPFS, a web scraping walkthrough, and a schoolyard-style explanation of Diffie-Hellman using a calculator.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Explaining simple problems in a simple way.
Most-linked posts?
- /docker-registry-for-ipfs/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Self-plug and an experiment only, but here's the blog of how I wrote a Storage Driver for Docker: https://blog.bonner.is/docker-registry-for-ipfs/
Comment linking /docker-registry-for-ipfs/
on “IPFS 0.5”Literally step for step what I spent my weekend putting together. Here's the preview blog I wrote on it. https://blog.bonner.is/using-ai-to-find-fencing-courses-in-l... Only step you missed was embeddings to avoid all the privacy pages, and a cookie banner blocker (which arguably the AI could navigate if I cared).
Comment linking /using-ai-to-find-fencing-courses-in-london/
on “Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide”Ipfs is already implemented. https://blog.bonner.is/docker-registry-for-ipfs/ But it's on you to use it. (And it doesn't solve the metadata queries the way I understand it)
Comment linking /docker-registry-for-ipfs/
on “Docker to rate limit image pulls”In regards to "But it'll always be like that regardless of provider", it's worth noting that distributed file-systems are situated perfectly to provide a torrent-like way of downloading containers. Self-blog just because it's easily at hand: https://blog.bonner.is/docker-registry-for-ipfs/
Comment linking /docker-registry-for-ipfs/
on “AWS pre-announces public container image registry”> It's not really ideal in a number of installations to be pulling down 1GB Docker images simultaneously from 20 devices when you push an update. That seems like a really big image? Alpine-based images in my experience tend to be under 100MB. But I would be fascinated to use p2p for distributing image layers; it feels like that shouldn't be too hard? EDIT: it's been done, apparently:) https://blog.bonner.is/docker-r…
Comment linking /docker-registry-for-ipfs/
on “Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux”If anyone is looking for an actual explanation of Diffie-Hellman for the layman, here is my 1-page blog about two kids implementing it on a calculator. https://blog.bonner.is/schoolyard-example-of-the-diffie-hell...
Comment linking /schoolyard-example-of-the-diffie-hellman-key-exchange/
on “Diffie-Hellman for the Layman”