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Zain Amro
Personal blog · zainamro.comsecurityprogramming
Zain Amro writes zain amro's website, a personal blog at zainamro.com about security and programming. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Unbearable news”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Zain Amro's personal site for its deliberately brutalist design and for notes on bloated news sites and browser handling of large files. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
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.
zain amro's website
Most-linked posts?
- Unbearable news3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-15
- Impersonating web browsers with fake error pages2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-22
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-18
- /feed.xml2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-17
What Hacker News says?
Regarding the style of the site (this made me chuckle): https://zainamro.com/brutalist
Comment linking /brutalist
on “Unbearable news”Submitted Working for a startup makes less sense as a story · 572 points
HN discussion> browsers are still not able to handle very large files well They are. But every improvement is matched by websites getting even larger. https://zainamro.com/notes/unbearable-news
Comment linking /notes/unbearable-news
on “Hacker News Classics (2018)”Submitted Unbearable news as a story · 423 points
HN discussionI agree with you that there really is nothing virtuous about handcrafted HTML, and it's for that same reason that I've spent very little time on it as you can probably tell. Rather, the point of the article is to assert that you don't need another tool, fancy theme or dependency to write and share something online. As for the RSS feed, there is one you can find at https://zainamro.com/feed.xml , which I've also ment…
Comment linking /feed.xml
on “Your blog probably doesn’t need a static site generator”Submitted Finding vulnerable Twitter accounts with expired domains as a story · 196 points
HN discussionAlso by the author, about the bloatedness of news sites today, https://zainamro.com/notes/unbearable-news
Comment linking /notes/unbearable-news
on “Your blog probably doesn’t need a static site generator”Submitted Your blog probably doesn’t need a static site generator as a story · 23 points
HN discussionIt looks like the person behind https://zainamro.com/ can't be bothered to provide a navigation menu on every page, or even a link back to their site's home page, so they'd probably dismiss your question out of hand. However, if you really want consistent elements on every page, you could probably do the job with m4 and a makefile. You can party like it's 1998[1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190813130112/https…
Comment linking /
on “Your blog probably doesn’t need a static site generator”Submitted Show HN: Linkypad – replace your LinkedIn newsfeed with a simple notepad as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://zainamro.com/feed.xml
Comment linking /feed.xml
on “Your blog probably doesn’t need a static site generator”Submitted UC Berkeley webcasts are no longer public (even to students?) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think this[1] is a good compromise between excessively brutalist websites like the one you mentioned or Zain Amro's site[2] and blogs pretending to be SPAs built with stuff like Bootstrap or Gatsby. Yes, I think React as a static site generator is overkill. But I'm old, and I don't see why a personal website should "appeal to society at large". Society at large isn't paying for domain registration or hosting, and…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Inspired web designs that aren't overdone, but also not overly-brutalist”Submitted Fully embracing the dumb terminal laptop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impersonating web browsers with fake error pages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impersonating web browsers with fake error pages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ephemeral audio rooms for when you wfh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phishing for an Analytics Injection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phishing for an Analytics Injection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fully embracing the dumb terminal laptop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impersonating web browsers with fake error pages as a story · 1 points
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