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Andrew Bailey
Personal blog · theandrewbailey.com · on HN as theandrewbaileyprogrammingweb
Andrew Bailey's personal blog at theandrewbailey.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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HN readers link this personal site mostly as a bare URL or quip. One commenter cites its CSS file sizes with and without base64-embedded fonts, as an example for a font-loading discussion.
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- /2 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2015-12-21
What Hacker News says?
Back in the day, Starcraft was my thing. I didn't get into Diablo too much, but I thought it was cool. I remember playing the original up to the final level. A few years ago, I played and beat it on my retro PC, and it was exactly as fun as I remembered it.[0] I tried Warcraft, but I didn't get into it. [0] https://theandrewbailey.com/article/180/Diablo
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on “Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard”Submitted Insanity: Locked Out (2020) as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhttps://theandrewbailey.com/ I usually write about whatever game I've finished playing, but sometimes write something mildly funny, surreal, or sarcastic. Other times I write about some nifty piece of code I just wrote, or improvements to the blog itself.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Stereo to Mono Using the Side Channel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGlass houses man : https://theandrewbailey.com/
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on “Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers”Submitted Hidden Writing, Explained Like XKCD Thing Explainer – The Andrew Bailey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://theandrewbailey.com/ I usually post about whatever game I just finished playing. New post about once (or less) per month. Has RSS.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Registers of the x86 CPU Architecture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wrote a comment earlier this week about a Google user being locked out of Google. I expanded it into a story, peppering it with less than flattering stories about Google. https://theandrewbailey.com/article/203/Insanity-Locked-Out I haven't read any Kafka, but I'm probably a fan already.
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on “Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB”Submitted Insanity: Locked Out – The Andrew Bailey as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI agree with pretty much everything (and have implemented my own blog like it), but I would like to expand on a few things: > I don't load the page in parts as you scroll it. It loads once and then you have it. Lazy loaded images are helpful for page performance reasons, as done by <img loading="lazy">. I have a script that flips one to eager (so it loads immediately) every few seconds depending on page load speed,…
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on “Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you”Submitted Insanity: Locked Out – The Andrew Bailey as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you’re talking about https://theandrewbailey.com/blog/ then your CSS with and without the base64 encoding looks like this: 101K 9 Dec 18:30 with.css 99K 9 Dec 18:31 with.min.css 73K 9 Dec 18:31 with.min.css.gz 6.8K 9 Dec 18:30 without.css 5.2K 9 Dec 18:31 without.min.css 1.8K 9 Dec 18:31 without.min.css.gz Although this might be true: > …72k, which is not much bigger than the CSS without the fonts + the fonts sep…
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on “Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts”Submitted Responsive Images and Remote Debugging – The Andrew Bailey as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wrote my blog's HTML[0] semantically, and I'm glad I did. I have a different style when someone fires up a new instance. I was already going for a retro "vaporwave" aesthetic there, and that recent Windows 93 post[2] pushed me over the edge. I apply those styles to my main site as an Easter egg when you view it in the Japanese locale.[1] [0] https://theandrewbailey.com/ [1] https://theandrewbailey.com/?lang=ja [2]…
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on “CSS Zen Garden”Submitted Speed Is Money, or Why I Support Net Neutrality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm using HAProxy on my 1 machine homelab. I'm not convinced that HTTP/3 a big improvement over HTTP/2, but for me, HTTP/3 was as easy as upgrading and adjusting the config file a little bit. From my perspective, the seeming lack of HTTP/3 support noted in this article is not a big problem. That said, I'm dying to get official 0-rtt support. https://www.haproxy.org/ https://haproxy.debian.net/ https://www.haproxy.co…
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on “HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere”Submitted Improved Backups and Backup Tips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI know everyone here will tell me to get off their lawn, but I just built a Pentium II computer about 2 months ago. I pulled most of it out of my uncles house when he died about two-ish years ago, and decided that its time to do something with this crap that's lying around. It's not quite the first computer in the house (a Compaq 486[1]), but it runs all the things it could. http://theandrewbailey.com/article/119/Pr…
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on “How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web”Yes, they are interchangeable. On my blog ( https://theandrewbailey.com/ ), I have a "health check" page that includes all available trust chains. For my Let's Encrypt certificate, it shows 2: one through an intermediate to the DST Root, and another intermediate to the ISRG Root. I can verify that both exist and are used (though one certificate and intermediate are loaded and served): the current Firefox release (an…
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on “Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root”Yes, I've been blogging for over 11 years. No one has ever wanted to hire me because of it. Yes, I have learned things from it. Sometimes I like to experiment with web features that I don't or can't at work. Over the past 5 years, I've been carefully considering what I write in blog posts, and it has forced me to research and reflect more on what I write. Even though it's mostly notes and thoughts on whatever videog…
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on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”A few reasons: 1. The vast majority of images on my blog are game screenshots. Often, a good portion of them are solid colors/gradients[0] or have blurry textures[1], which helps. When I played around with AVIF, 0.6 bpp was enough to keep the prominent parts, then tried less. For photos, unless it's a picture of grass, gravel, or trees[2], the same holds[3]. 2. I encode only high resolution (x2) images as AVIFs, so…
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on “FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL”I recently did a optimization pass at my own blog[0], and came to the same conclusions. I thought a lot about images, since I have a lot of game screenshots. I decided that since my redesigned homepage will only show summaries of a post with the first image, that my original rule of images no bigger than 80k was good enough. It makes the homepage about 500k on a uncached first hit, but I figure that's more useful th…
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on “The Fastest Blog in the World (2015)”The entire thing is sitting on the right side of my desk in my monitor post (not the best lighting though): https://theandrewbailey.com/article/262/So-Few-Monitors.html It's still there, and worked the last time I tried turning it on.
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on “Building my childhood dream PC”Most of the PCs I had access to growing up sucked in some way, so I have no nostalgia to recreate any of them as entire systems. In 2013[0], I built a PC with the loose goal of being the best the 20th century had to offer, at least as far as core components were concerned. (I considered 2000 as part of the 20th century for the purposes of this build.) I ended up with a Pentium 3 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM, Geforce 2 Ultra,…
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on “Building my childhood dream PC”That's awesome! Yeah, you can definitely go overboard with webfonts. The 3 that my blog[0] uses are base64 URLs in my single 100k CSS file. Reducing javascript and deferring the rest gets some solid speedups. Serving everything from a single domain reduces total load time, due to DNS lookups. You might even get away with not having social media widget JS, too: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/add-social-sharing-links-…
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on “Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)”The constraint made me realize that the complex word isn't that helpful when the other person doesn't know much behind the word. You need to get inventive, and at some point, you might start having fun. I used this to explain encryption, and from the feedback I've got, I seem to have done a good job. It gets repetitive at times, but I managed to slip in PKI, password storage, and a brief summary of the Crypto Wars.…
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on “The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer [pdf]”I totally get it, but I blog[0], too. > I don't have anything interesting to say The main reason I blog is to improve my writing. Because I've been blogging for about 10 years, I have a record of how it's changed over time. I'd like to think that it's gotten better, but I have no feedback on that. Most of what I blog about is whatever game I've finished playing. I usually end up collaborating what others have said,…
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on “Why don't I have a blog?”I just finished playing through Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Linux with Lutris. The EA Launcher gave me a few issues (like not launching sometimes), but it eventually worked. I did not have the game through Steam. https://theandrewbailey.com/article/290/Mass-Effect-Legendar...
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on “2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop”On my blog, I use Noto Sans for text and Questrial for headings. On the rare occasion that I require a monospace font (anywhere, blog, programming or otherwise), I go for Cousine. http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Noto+Sans http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Questrial http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cousine http://theandrewbailey.com/
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on “Taking a second look at free fonts”
