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With Blue Ink
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With Blue Ink is a personal blog at withblue.ink about programming, security and systems. Since 2017, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5k% spikes instantly)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, 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 this blog's post on Unicode normalization, which one commenter recommends for explaining how it works. Other linked comments cite it in discussions of IPFS and decentralized apps.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5k% spikes instantly)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-09
- Host your website with IPFS clusters, Cloudflare, and DevOps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-16
- Why to normalize Unicode strings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-13
- Interacting with JavaScript from Go/WASM: objects, promises, HTTP requests2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-03
What Hacker News says?
It's possible that both the hosting[1] of apps and also inter-app communication[2] would be possible via IPFS. Orchestration of the resources (CPU, memory, storage) to run API services would also be possible in a distribution manner if we can envision something like Kubernetes to manage workload allocation across compute hardware (smartphones?) and if there's a way for participating nodes to obtain container images…
Comment linking /2019/03/20/hugo-and-ipfs-how-this-blog-works-and-scales.html
on “PWA Store”Submitted I loved jQuery, and still do (2019) as a story · 191 points
HN discussionSorry for your loss. I know it's hard, and the cold computer-automated world of today will mindlessly still remind you of your loved one in a million different ways. You just gotta be patient, take a break, or perhaps delegate some of those tasks to friends or family. Many companies don't know how or haven't thought about how to deal with the death of a user or subscriber. As an estate admin, I've had trouble dealin…
Comment linking /2019/03/18/what-happens-to-your-digital-life-after-youre-gone-introducing-hereditas.html
on “Ask HN: How does your app deal with the death of one of your users?”Submitted Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web as a story · 179 points
HN discussionWeb 3/Dweb minus the crypto built on IPFS (or something similar). I believe many developers will soon come to realize that you don't need a blockchain to build most decentralized applications. Products like like Google Docs, social networks, messaging app, etc don't depend on a proof of stake, and we shouldn't be running miners to power such simple operations. All these applications need isa decentralized form of me…
Comment linking /2019/03/20/hugo-and-ipfs-how-this-blog-works-and-scales.html
on “Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the next few years?”Submitted I accidentally built a spying app as a story · 176 points
HN discussion> Chloë loves Pokémon. Zoë's favorite constellation is Boötes. Speaking of Zoë and normalizing Unicode strings, here's an excellent resource I use every few months when I forget how it works: https://withblue.ink/2019/03/11/why-you-need-to-normalize-un...
Comment linking /2019/03/11/why-you-need-to-normalize-unicode-strings.html
on “Diacritical Marks in Unicode”Submitted Why to normalize Unicode strings as a story · 143 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5k% spikes instantly) as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted How (and why) to sign Git commits as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interacting with JavaScript from Go/WASM: objects, promises, HTTP requests as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Host your website with IPFS clusters, Cloudflare, and DevOps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building with Distributed Actors: What and Why as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go, WebAssembly, HTTP Requests and Promises as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop writing your user authentication code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next app may not have a back end (JAMStack and what's next) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static web apps with geo-redundant IPFS clusters and Cloudflare, optional CI/CD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with ZFS on FreeBSD on Azure (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-mounting encrypted drives with a remote key on Linux as a story · 1 points
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