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zwischenzugs
Personal blog · zwischenzugs.wordpress.comprogrammingsystemssecurity
zwischenzugs is a personal blog at zwischenzugs.wordpress.com about programming, systems and security. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 91 times, most often “Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on the vocabularies of famous English writers, which the one commenter cites for a range of 15,000 to 30,000 unique words. The comment only cites the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-12
- /2011/03/06/shakespeare_unexceptional_vocabulary/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-08
What Hacker News says?
I blogged on the usefulness of reading RFCs more only the other day: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/the-it-crowd-w... Personally, I trust the elders of the internet implicitly.
Comment linking /2015/11/26/the-it-crowd-was-right-what-i-learned-by-reading-a-lot-of-rfcs/
on “The secret message hidden in every HTTP/2 connection”Submitted My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies as a story · 413 points
HN discussionMy kids are 9 and 10. About 5 years ago I read 'Getting Things Done' and (despite my misgivings) it literally changed my life. Since then I've: - set up a JIRA to track ALL the things I work on - written a book https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Practice-Ian-Miell/dp/16172927... (and am currently writing a second edition) - started a blog https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/ - changed jobs - become a speaker https://www.y…
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on “Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up?”Submitted What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the Busiest Gambling Sites as a story · 220 points
HN discussionThis is great, and needs saying. Recently I wrote a similar blog about an alternative app pattern that uses makefiles: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/a-non-cloud-se...
Comment linking /2017/08/07/a-non-cloud-serverless-application-pattern-using-git-and-docker/
on “Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be”Submitted Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated as a story · 177 points
HN discussionI made an argument that we were reinventing many of the ideas of Erlang in the DCOS model (Docker, Kub, and cloud etc). Text is here (CTRL-F erlang): https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/dockerconeu-20... Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qHwL8C9UoA
Comment linking /2015/11/17/dockerconeu-2015-talk-you-know-more-than-you-think/
on “Why Erlang Matters”Submitted Docker in Practice – A Guide for Engineers as a story · 90 points
HN discussionI mentioned this elsewhere in the thread, but here goes: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/ci-as-code-sta... https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/ci-as-code-par... https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/922/
Comment linking /2016/02/25/922/
on “Jenkins 2.0 Beta”Submitted Play with Kubernetes Quickly Using Docker as a story · 68 points
HN discussionI wrote these posts recently about stateless Jenkins deployments: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/ci-as-code-sta... https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/ci-as-code-par... https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/922/ Does anyone know if any effort has been put in to make Jenkins more 'programmable' in 2.0? I had a quick look at the bumph recently but couldn't see anything pertinent.
Comment linking /2016/02/25/922/
on “Jenkins 2.0 Beta”Submitted Convert Servers to Docker Containers as a story · 61 points
HN discussionI wrote a simpler ansible :) https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/shutit/ use it all the time, eg: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/a-complete-ope...
Comment linking /2017/03/04/a-complete-openshift-cluster-on-vagrant-step-by-step/
on “Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?”Submitted Show HN: Demo of live container migration using Virtualbox, Vagrant and ShutIt as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI wouldn't call it comprehensive but I did this: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/a-high-availab...
Comment linking /2015/08/26/a-high-availability-phoenix-and-ab-deployment-framework-using-docker/
on “Announcing Docker 1.9: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking”Submitted Shakespeare's Vocabulary Considered Unexceptional as a story · 9 points
HN discussion"- Create a base image which handles the stuff you need to reach out to the network for (`apt-get install openjdk-6-jre` etc.) and is infrequently updated. Then the Dockerfile for the final application is `FROM me/myjava` and just does a few things that don't use the network like `ADD . /code`. - Use `docker commit` instead of Dockerfiles for those steps (pretty gross IMO) - Use CM in your docker build to install a…
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on “Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?”Submitted Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI blogged on automating deployment to AWS with Docker here: http://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/using-shutit-an... http://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/using-shutit-an...
Comment linking /2014/09/15/using-shutit-and-docker-to-play-with-aws-part-two/
on “Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?”Submitted A Non-Cloud Serverless Application Pattern Using Git and Docker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOnly true if you don't go to the network: http://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/phoenix-deploym...
Comment linking /2014/07/16/phoenix-deployment-pain-and-win/
on “Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?”Submitted Hitler uses Docker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis site: http://themortgagemeter.com/ is completely dockerized, and rebuilds from scratch daily (phoenix deployment). I've written a few blogs on this: http://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/phoenix-deploym... http://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/phoenix-deploym... The tool I talk about there is here: http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/ https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit I've also used Docker to provis…
Comment linking /2014/09/15/using-shutit-and-docker-to-play-with-aws-part-two/
on “Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?”Submitted CI as Code: Stateless Jenkins with Dynamic Docker Slaves as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote this a while back, in case it helps: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/writing-a-tech...
Comment linking /2016/05/15/writing-a-technical-book/
on “Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?”Submitted CI as Code: Stateless Jenkins Deployments with Docker Compose as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's an example of X11 in a container, with VNC'ing in. https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/win-at-2048-wi... original link: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/docker-shutit-...
Comment linking /2014/05/09/docker-shutit-and-the-perfect-2048-game/
on “RancherOS: An OS for Docker Containers”Submitted Docker and SELinux Experimentation in Fast Iterations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThanks, I did give some talks on it at my last corp, but it's so difficult to write about your own life. I do blog on technical stuff here: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/ Most recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10963646
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on “Ask HN: How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?”Submitted Docker and Storage Drivers – Not Sexy, but Important as a story · 4 points
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