Hacker News: drewsberry

Is this the new cyber normal?

drewsberry — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:04:53 +0000

Article URL: https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/is-this-the-new-cyber-normal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207115

Points: 173

# Comments: 205

New comment by drewsberry in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

drewsberry — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:21:33 +0000

https://drew.silcock.dev

Hunting a production-only proxy bug in SvelteKit

drewsberry — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:56:09 +0000

Article URL: https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/fixing-a-bug-in-sveltekit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149006

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by drewsberry in "Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories"

drewsberry — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:06:20 +0000

There's no CMS, the site is generated from MD/MDX using Astro. The theme is an adapted version of Astro Micro (https://astro.build/themes/details/astro-micro/). Seems like some people like it and some don't, but I like it so I'm using it

New comment by drewsberry in "Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories"

drewsberry — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:02:01 +0000

The site uses Astro (https://astro.build/) and the code blocks are generated using Shiki (https://shiki.style/). As Shiki generates the HTML and CSS at build-time instead of requiring runtime JS like alternatives like Prism (https://prismjs.com/#basic-usage), it's actually quite performant. I think it's unlikely that a couple of hundred lines with some empty spans in is going to cause performance issues – imo it's more likely to come from some silly JS somewhere.

New comment by drewsberry in "Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories"

drewsberry — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:51:24 +0000

There was a silly on scroll listener that was doing basically nothing – I've tried removing that so if you happen to visit again, I'd be very grateful if you could let me know whether it is still happening (I can't reproduce it myself).

New comment by drewsberry in "Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories"

drewsberry — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:50:01 +0000

Thanks for letting me know. I'm on an M3 and haven't experienced any issues myself, but allowing for font size configuration seems like a pretty good idea. I'd added this in so if you happen to take another look, I'd be interested to hear whether you think this is an improvement.

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

drewsberry — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:45:24 +0000

Article URL: https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/artisanal-git/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586064

Points: 266

# Comments: 68

New comment by drewsberry in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

drewsberry — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:05:51 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't seen that – I've just pushed an update to reflect this.

How Postgres stores oversized values – let's raise a TOAST

drewsberry — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:27:26 +0000

Article URL: https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/how-postgres-stores-oversized-values/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319025

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:44:20 +0000

It's probably complaining about the relative path, try replacing `-v ./pg-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data` with `-v "$PWD/pg-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data"`

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:34:36 +0000

Thanks for letting me know, it was a typo in the "click-away closes nav menu" logic that opened it on the first click – all fixed now.

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:52:07 +0000

Mine blocked it when I first created it, you can usually flag an incorrectly classified site and they'll correct it (I assure that you I'm not doing any phishing).

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:40:55 +0000

There are dozens of us!

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:39:59 +0000

Well if it isn't my arch-nemesis – my legally designated name. Maybe I should've gone for something with just my first name like drewsexpertblog.dev

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:18:32 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it :-) I've added the RSS feed to my home page now, as the other poster noted the URL is https://drew.silcock.dev/rss.xml.

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:06:43 +0000

Very good point, I've rephrased this.

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:37:29 +0000

Thanks for letting me know, I'll make sure to edit it quickly next time :-)

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:03:17 +0000

Can't see any way of modifying the title, unless I'm missing something – maybe I missed the edit window.

New comment by drewsberry in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

drewsberry — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:52:46 +0000

I did add it into the title originally, must've been stripped. Thanks for the heads up, didn't know HN had this "useful feature".