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Andri Yngvason
Personal blog · andri.yngvason.issystemsprogramminghardware
Andri Yngvason writes Andri is…, a personal blog at andri.yngvason.is about systems, programming and hardware. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Writing a VNC Server for Wayland”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Computer programming and other things I find interesting.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing a VNC Server for Wayland2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-25
- Making a Wayland Screen Capturing Protocol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-10
What Hacker News says?
For the curious, this is the saga of when I had to fix my washing machine because a repair man used the wrong type of terminals when fixing it previously: https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html
Comment linking /repairing-the-washing-machine.html
on “My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation”Submitted Knolling as a story · 75 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of my own troubles with my AEG washing machine. Probably, the most important lesson (for someone who wants to fix their washing machine ASAP) that I learned from that was that there are non-userserviceable error codes and you need to perform an undocumented procedure on your machine to get those codes. I wrote about it in more detail here: https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html…
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on “FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools”Submitted Making a Wayland Screen Capturing Protocol as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThis is exactly what I've done with my blog. See e.g. https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html
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on “Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?”Submitted Checking Frame Damage on the GPU as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> This is obviously not a great solution, and VNC in general feels like ancient technology It's not obvious to me. This looks like software ageism. :) There are at least 2 things that could be done to improve performance in the author's setup: 1. Use the --gpu flag which enables dmabuf capture and h264 encoding via vaapi. 2. Connect using a dedicated VNC client like TigerVNC. This reduces latency by roughly 50 ms. F…
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on “Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland”Submitted Repairing the Washing Machine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a VNC Server for Wayland as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring processes by abusing mutexes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a Wayland Screen Capturing Protocol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a VNC Server for Wayland as a story · 2 points
HN discussion