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~ajroach42.com is a personal blog at ajroach42.com about culture and history. Since 2018, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about Floppycasts, podcasts squeezed into 1.44MB, with audio samples compared across Opus and MP3, and for a note on font rendering. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
I'm Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This is my blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-25
- Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-25
- Steps Towards a Web Without the Internet (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-27
What Hacker News says?
Hmm, listening the the samples [0], the OPUS one is almost unbearably noisy, whereas the MP3 while, while clearly low quality, is still listenable. Am I missing something, why is OPUS doing so poorly? [0] http://ajroach42.com/floppycast-examples/
Comment linking /floppycast-examples/
on “Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts”Submitted Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts as a story · 138 points
HN discussionMacs do weird stuff with font compositing, try toggling subpixel rendering in CSS [0] and watch the weight of your type completely change. :- ) Whatever they're doing, at least one of these modes has to be wrong. Windows is a complete mess when it comes to text display, but that's nothing new, although to be fair to them, they do not screw this particular thing up. FreeType2 in Firefox or a Chromium-based browser on…
Comment linking /floppycasts-1-44mb-podcasts/
on “A Mental Model for Video”Submitted Thoughts on “The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation” as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observations on Modern Computing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Community Software: Building the Future Inside the Rotting Husk of the Past as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Everyone Seems to Get Wrong About Mastodon (Or What Mastodon't) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gopher: Remembering the Web That Wasn't as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DIY Convertible Computing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steps Towards a Web Without the Internet (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steps Towards a Web Without the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Small Things Manifesto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robo Sumo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DeOldify – Automatically Colorizing Videos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unreasonably Low Bitrates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towel Day (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted High Lotek – Gemini and the Small Internet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Document your art: how to archive as a story · 1 points
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