Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #19157

A

Adrien Plazas

Personal blog · adrienplazas.com/blogprogrammingdesign

Adrien Plazas's personal blog at adrienplazas.com covers programming and design. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Libadwaita”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-13, and you can follow it by feed.

Visit the blog
6mentions?
4HN people?
2021–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Adrien Plazas's blog for GTK and libadwaita posts, such as the 2021 libadwaita release announcement, which one commenter cites to explain the rationale behind GTK changes.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Libadwaita
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. >though it's possible the author of the article was wrong or was misquoting someone. Yes, they were, that is the opposite of what actually happened. The real rationale is explained in the libadwaita release announcement: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwa... >and one of my recent projects simply cannot be built with GTK4 due to features that were removed Yes, they also deprecated/removed so…

    Comment linking /blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwaita.html

    on “GTK 5 might drop X11 support”
  2. Submitted One Device to Do It All as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwa...

    Comment linking /blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwaita.html

    on “Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16”
  4. Submitted David Revoy (Comic Artist): “At First, Publishing Under Free Licenses Scared Me” as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Libadwaita as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted GTK Introducing Libadwaita as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for adrienplazas.com