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John Goerzen

changelog.complete.org

Popular posts: 21
Total points: 4,897
HN comments: 3,250
Rank: #226 personal

Visit changelog.complete.org → On Hacker News Jun 2012 – Aug 2026

Systems & Performance 9 Networking & Internet 5 Infrastructure & DevOps 5 History & Retro Computing 5 Society, Policy & Culture 4 Life, Learning & Writing 4

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1

Facebook Censored Me For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

2021638 points284 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

2

I introduced my 5yo and 2yo to startx and xmonad. They’re delighted.

2012520 points383 comments Systems & Performance details

3

Silent Data Corruption Is Real

2017319 points150 comments Databases & Data details

4

KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE

2022315 points178 comments Systems & Performance details

5

Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

2022308 points142 comments Networking & Internet details

6

The Python Unicode Mess

2018284 points272 comments Software Engineering details

7

Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie

2015282 points260 comments Systems & Performance details

8

I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2

2022248 points233 comments Systems & Performance details

9

Try the last internet Kermit server

2023208 points70 comments Networking & Internet details

10

Debian developer prompted to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years

2015198 points234 comments Systems & Performance details

11

My boys love 1986 computing

2014198 points65 comments History & Retro Computing details

12

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

2026181 points51 comments History & Retro Computing details

13

After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs

2018180 points161 comments Tools & Productivity details

14

Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal

2021179 points210 comments Networking & Internet details

15

Easily accessing all your stuff with a zero-trust mesh VPN

2023177 points60 comments Networking & Internet details

16

Managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard

2021117 points132 comments Systems & Performance details

17

Count me as a systemd convert

2016116 points137 comments Systems & Performance details

18

Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS documentary

2022115 points39 comments History & Retro Computing details

19

Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet

2022107 points82 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

20

First Impressions of Systemd, and They Are Not Good

2014104 points105 comments Systems & Performance details

21

Hiking a mountain with Ian Murdock

2016103 points2 comments Life, Learning & Writing details