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Zac Stewart
Personal blog · zacstewart.com · on HN as eloisiusprogrammingdata
Zac Stewart's personal blog at zacstewart.com covers programming and data. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The HTTP OPTIONS method and potential for self-describing RESTful APIs”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post suggesting the HTTP OPTIONS method could document REST APIs so client libraries can be generated, and for a post about Meow, a Growl work-alike.
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.
I'm a freelance software engineer specializing in computer vision. I have a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions for more than a decade.
Most-linked posts?
- The HTTP OPTIONS method and potential for self-describing RESTful APIs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-14
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of how I got users to verify their ownership of Minecraft accounts[0]. There is no profile to add a token, but they can switch their skin, and you can download a user’s skin without being in-world. [0] http://zacstewart.com/2012/12/24/verifying-minecraft-user-ac...
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on “Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially)”Submitted The HTTP OPTIONS method and potential for self-describing RESTful APIs as a story · 90 points
HN discussionhttps://zacstewart.com/tags/phonium.html I did this a few years ago and got pretty far with a prototype. My idea was to get it to the point of being useful enough to call, text and allow me to leave my iPhone behind when I’m out doing stuff. Then I moved to Asia and we use LINE extensively for everything and there’s no (legit) way to use their APIs.
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on “I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]”Submitted Using JSON Web Tokens to Authenticate JavaScript Front-Ends on Rails as a story · 73 points
HN discussionIt's a shame there isn't some simple standard (de-facto or otherwise) way of documenting REST APIs such that an idiomatic client library for each language could be generated automatically. The OPTIONS method is a really underused part of HTTP and would be great for this purpose: http://zacstewart.com/2012/04/14/http-options-method.html
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on “When REST isn't Good Enough”Submitted Using scikit-learn Pipelines and FeatureUnions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Taipei, Taiwan (GMT+8) | Remote OK I can help you launch your MVP. I’m a generalist engineer with 11 years of experience. I’ve worked at big and small companies, as CTO of a startup, and done lots of consulting. Most of that was doing web stuff, but I’ve also worked on more niche stuff like ML, computer vision, and microcontrollers. I have worked as a consultant long enough to know that the process is…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2021)”Submitted Document Classification with scikit-learn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK: US / Remote Mostly backend web dev. with Ruby, Rails, Python. I also know my way around the scipy stack. * http://zacstewart.com * https://github.com/zacstewart * https://www.kaggle.com/zacstewart zgtewart@gmail.com
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2015)”Submitted Establish Your Encrypted Channels Now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Taipei, Taiwan (GMT+8) | Remote OK Generalist engineer with 11 years of professional experience. I’ve worked at big and small companies, as CTO of a startup, and done lots of consulting. Most of that time was doing web stuff, but I’ve also worked on more niche stuff like ML, machine vision, and microcontrollers. I have worked as a consultant long enough to know that the process is as important as the…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2021)”Location: Taipei, Taiwan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe, but definitely willing to travel Technologies: Python, Torch/PyTorch, COLMAP, OpenCV, C++, Qt Résumé/CV: https://zacstewart.com/resume.pdf Email: work at zacstewart dot com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-stewart-79b2a5a6/ Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulati…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)”Location: Taiwan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but will travel Technologies: Python, Torch/PyTorch, COLMAP, OpenCV Résumé/CV: https://zacstewart.com/resume.pdf Email: work at zacstewart dot com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-stewart-79b2a5a6/ Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. Object…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)”Location: Taipei, Taiwan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe, but definitely willing to travel Technologies: Python, Torch/PyTorch, COLMAP, OpenCV, C++, Qt Résumé/CV: https://zacstewart.com/resume.pdf Email: work at zacstewart dot com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-stewart-79b2a5a6/ Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulati…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)”Since the blog doesn't really add value, the link should probably go directly to the project: http://zacstewart.com/2011/06/18/meow-a-growl-work-alike-for...
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on “Meow - A Growl-like Notifications for jQuery”