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Will Norris
Personal blog · willnorris.comprogrammingweb
Will Norris's personal blog at willnorris.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Will Norris's posts arguing that all site traffic should be encrypted by default, and an older post on OpenID identity. Commenters cite them as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
stay focused on what matters
What Hacker News says?
His website claims he’s open source lead at Twitter: https://willnorris.com/
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on “twitter/the-algorithm”Submitted Go, REST APIs, and Pointers as a story · 117 points
HN discussionbecause if security and privacy is only limited to sensitive or controversial sites, then the use of security and privacy become suspect. If ALL internet traffic were encrypted, it would make surveillance that much more difficult because you can't find the signal in the noise. Cory Doctorow's book, Little Brother, talks a bit about this... in fact, that book was one of the motivations for Google starting to encrypt…
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on “A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS”Submitted Testing HTTP client code in golang as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> If there was something worth protecting on a personal blog site, it might be a different story. It's not about security here, it's about privacy. https://willnorris.com/2012/12/all-https-all-the-time > This blog isn’t terribly controversial. But if only the "controversial" stuff is private, then privacy is itself suspicious. Thus, privacy should be on by default.
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on “How to implement HTTPS in an insufficient manner”Submitted Tailscale devices with a custom domain (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is a solved problem: http://willnorris.com/2009/07/openid-directed-identity-ident...
Comment linking /2009/07/openid-directed-identity-identifier-select
on “OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use”
