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Andreas Gohr
Personal blog · splitbrain.org/blog · on HN as splitbrainprogrammingweb
Andreas Gohr's personal blog at splitbrain.org covers programming and web. Since 2008, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Command line git pull requests”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for Andreas Gohr's MonsterID avatar project, an OpenTextSummarizer web service, and a 2010 Linux OCR comparison post. Most comments are bare links or mentions with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Andreas Gohr is a web developer and maker based in Berlin, Germany, sharing blog posts and links on his website, splitbrain.org.
Most-linked posts?
- Command line git pull requests2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-19
- /services/ots2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-28
- Clipscreen – create a virtual monitor that mirrors a portion of your screen2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-13
What Hacker News says?
this reminds me MonsterID by splitbrain - https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid
Comment linking /projects/monsterid
on “Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?”Submitted Cheap Router Table and Lift as a story · 104 points
HN discussionhttps://www.splitbrain.org is my personal blog. It covers a broad mix of stuff. Side projects, vacation pics, personal stuff... I guess it's what people would use Facebook for nowadays?
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Google: we're having scaling issues, please stop distributing your FF extension as a story · 99 points
HN discussionhttps://www.splitbrain.org powered by DokuWiki for years now, but started as a bunch of PHP scripts.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Command line git pull requests as a story · 74 points
HN discussionI was in the same boat and built my own commenting system. It has an importer for disqus (so you don't lose your old comments) and also imports Mastodon replies. https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-03/26-meh_another_comme...
Comment linking /blog/2025-03/26-meh_another_comment_system
on “I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse”Submitted Giraffe: A Personal Conference Tool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInstead of running full blown secondary HA instances for that, simply use ESPhome on a ESP32. I used that method to pick up the signals of a couple of bluetooth hygrometers in the cellar: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2021-08/16-humidity_control_...
Comment linking /blog/2021-08/16-humidity_control_with_home_assistant
on “Home Assistant – open-source home automation”Submitted Paper Backup (1) Scanner Setup (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently build something similar for my balcony. But instead of a $30 raspberry I used a $9 NodeMCU: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2017-06/10-automated_plant_w... Also just took me a few evenings instead of months.
Comment linking /blog/2017-06/10-automated_plant_watering
on “Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot”Submitted JavaScript CDNs by the numbers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFirst time I heard someone asking for that. But I do indeed have that for my own blog and love it: https://www.splitbrain.org/ And if you're into random blog post, be sure to check out my project https://indieblog.page/
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on “Why I still blog after 15 years”Submitted Keeping your home directory organized as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's development has stalled long ago, but you could try OpenTextSummarizer [0]. It is available on the Debian repos [1] and you can try a web interface [2] to see if it fulfills your expectations. [0] https://github.com/neopunisher/Open-Text-Summarizer/ [1] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libots [2] https://www.splitbrain.org/services/ots
Comment linking /services/ots
on “Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?”Submitted Beer Bread as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have a big 49" wide screen monitor and sharing my screen in Google Meet was cumbersome because you can only share a window or the whole screen, but not a screen region. So I wrote a small tool that uses the xrandr extension to mirror an area to a virtual monitor which then can be shared. See my blog post for some more details: https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2024-10/11-introducing_clips...
Comment linking /blog/2024-10/11-introducing_clipscreen
on “Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting”Submitted Clipscreen – create a virtual monitor that mirrors a portion of your screen as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"your website as a record" resonates with me. I recently redesigned my website (which is online since 2001) and one new feature I added is a random button. Clicking it will open a random page which is often a blog post I wrote many years ago. It's easily the most fun feature for me personally as it makes me remember things of my life... I don't know how much other visitors use or like it. If you want, give it a try…
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on “Run Your Own Website”Submitted RetroPie, Revision 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI had a similar thing on my website for ages (probably 10 years or so) based on the open text summary tool. It works pretty good and is completely open source: https://www.splitbrain.org/services/ots
Comment linking /services/ots
on “Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click”Submitted DIY Board Game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI built something like this myself using a Raspberry Pi: http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2014-08/23-paper_backup_1_sca...
Comment linking /blog/2014-08/23-paper_backup_1_scanner_setup
on “Paperwork: A Personal Document Manager for Scanned Documents”Submitted Custom Board Game Inserts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid
Comment linking /projects/monsterid
on “Smokescreen - a Flash player written in Javascript and HTML5 ”Submitted Please don't port philosophy with code [splitbrain.org] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can achieve this without exposing any service. Let's Encrypt allows you to prove ownership of a domain through DNS 01 hooks. I personally use Duck DNS [1] for main internal domains, so I can have a certificate that most tools will recognize as valid. This saves me from adding my cert in every machine that will use that service. I use dehydrated [2] to get a Let's Encrypt certificate using Duck DNS. There is a go…
Comment linking /blog/2017-08/10-homeassistant_duckdns_letsencrypt
on “Show HN: Inlets – Expose your local endpoints to the Internet”Submitted Password Manager Woes [Splitbrain.org] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-06/15-linux_ocr_software... is a very simple comparison (linked from the post). So with a small enough test set, abbyy is infinitely better
Comment linking /blog/2010-06/15-linux_ocr_software_comparison
on “Open Source OCR in JavaScript”Submitted Automate Github Pull Requests as a story · 1 points
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