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Wally Jones
Personal blog · nil.wallyjones.comsystemssecurity
Wally Jones writes Nil, a personal blog at nil.wallyjones.com about systems and security. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts about a Pelican-generated static site and a post on what happens behind the scenes when connecting to captive guest WiFi.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I decided to go with Pelican for my blog, http://nil.wallyjones.com . If you are comfortable with a little HTML and CSS then you can whip up a simple minimal theme in a fairly short period of time. Honestly, I don’t even consider mine finished and tend to add to it as I write posts (which isn’t very often). If you have any questions about getting pelican up and running, let me know. You can also check out my theme,…
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on “Consume less, create more”Submitted Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month as a story · 204 points
HN discussionYeah, captive portals are annoying. I got so frustrated with trying to connect to Starbucks' WiFi that I ended up writing my own script [1] that would allow me to authenticate from my terminal. I even wrote about what happens behind the scenes when you connect. [2] 1: https://github.com/imwally/coffeeconnect 2: https://nil.wallyjones.com/what-happens-when-you-connect-to-...
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on “CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi”Submitted What Shell Am I Using? as a story · 108 points
HN discussionI've been using pelican [1] with S3 for my blog [2]. It comes with a nice makefile that handles the generation (markdown -> HTML), dev server (localhost:8000 that regenerates files upon modification) and deployment to S3 (uses s3cmd along with API keys to upload to a designated bucket). It offers GitHub, ftp, ssh, and dropbox options for deployment as well, but I've never tried them. [1] https://blog.getpelican.com…
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on “Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform”Submitted What Happens When You Connect to Starbucks Wi-Fi as a story · 3 points
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