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Andros Fenollosa
Personal blog · en.andros.dev/blogprogrammingweb
Andros Fenollosa's personal blog at en.andros.dev covers programming and web. Since 2025, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 106 times, most often “We're fighting over the wrong wire: WebSockets vs. SSE for HTML over the wire”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andros Fenollosa's posts on HTML over WebSockets, LiveView benchmarks and Emacs. Comments mostly dispute the posts or cite them as references rather than praise them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Product Owner and Full-stack developer with experience in web technologies. Passionate about functional programming, writing technical books, teaching courses, and maintaining open source projects.
Most-linked posts?
- We're fighting over the wrong wire: WebSockets vs. SSE for HTML over the wire3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-12
- Twtxt vs. Org Social: the evolution of an idea2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-06
- Making UIs like text adventure games2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-27
- I organize my Emacs configuration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-28
- EWW, the Emacs browser you underestimate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-04
- From Htmx to Django LiveView2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-03
- My newsletter is your email client, too2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-03
- I created a game engine for Django?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-16
- Quick tutorial to get a blog online from Org Mode thanks to Org Social2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-26
- HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-11
What Hacker News says?
Sure, it's Wei & Tyson, "An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network": https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05709 The 98.2% is download traffic, not relay-to-relay sync. Across 17.8M posts and 712 relays (second half of 2023), the average post sat on 34.6 relays, and since clients subscribe to every relay in their list, they pull the same event over and over. On curation, expiry and registered identities: I agree, and t…
Comment linking /blog/603e4e90/there-is-no-such-thing-as-full-decentralization/
on “We don't want decentralized systems, we want small ones”Submitted Why your social.org files can have millions of lines without performance issues as a story · 93 points
HN discussion> This kind of comment loses a lot of its weight by being posted here on HN instead of sent privately. If this were really a good-faith question, a DM would have done it. I'm sorry if it came across as a personal attack, it wasn't the intention. It felt like the right place to comment. The article is public, the accusations are public, the licence is public and you made your position on generative AI public on the h…
Comment linking /blog/bd74e61a/were-fighting-over-the-wrong-wire-websockets-vs-sse-for-html-over-the-wire/
on “HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript”Submitted Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionThe soap opera continues here: https://en.andros.dev/blog/bd74e61a/were-fighting-over-the-w...
Comment linking /blog/bd74e61a/were-fighting-over-the-wrong-wire-websockets-vs-sse-for-html-over-the-wire/
on “HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript”Submitted Quick tutorial to get started on Org Social as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI forgot to link to OP's response to the response. It's mostly Ai slop. https://en.andros.dev/blog/bd74e61a/were-fighting-over-the-w...
Comment linking /blog/bd74e61a/were-fighting-over-the-wrong-wire-websockets-vs-sse-for-html-over-the-wire/
on “HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript”Submitted I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI would like to invite you to read this article: https://en.andros.dev/blog/ba142044/twtxt-vs-org-social-the-... What do you think?
Comment linking /blog/ba142044/twtxt-vs-org-social-the-evolution-of-an-idea/
on “textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform”Submitted We don't want decentralized systems, we want small ones as a story · 28 points
HN discussionIt pretends to be serious with 5 tables / charts: Django LiveView vs Phoenix LiveView: a real benchmark https://en.andros.dev/blog/80134668/django-liveview-vs-phoen...
Comment linking /blog/80134668/django-liveview-vs-phoenix-liveview-a-real-benchmark/
on “I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me”Submitted There is no such thing as full decentralization as a story · 25 points
HN discussionToday it's quite easy to keep your private notes on your infrastructure, manage them with your iPhone, and even store them in plain text: Joplin, Syncthing, WebDAV ( https://en.andros.dev/blog/9abcdcfe/your-denote-notes-on-the... )...
Comment linking /blog/9abcdcfe/your-denote-notes-on-the-iphone/
on “I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned”Submitted Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI prefer Org Social a million times over Nostr :) https://en.andros.dev/blog/8c640241/why-org-social-when-you-...
Comment linking /blog/8c640241/why-org-social-when-you-can-use-anything/
on “I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned”Submitted A year of Org Social, my social network as a story · 10 points
HN discussionUnsure what you mean. When I press Enter on an image, it does load it (in Emacs). I believe opening within Emacs should be the default - as many Emacs users aim to do everything within Emacs. See this submission from a day ago: https://en.andros.dev/blog/06bfd107/emacs-is-a-lispboard/
Comment linking /blog/06bfd107/emacs-is-a-lispboard/
on “My Emacs Configuration (Dired)”Submitted The Photoshop clone that hurts GIMP as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A year of Org Social, my social network as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't recommend Tailwind CSS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Org Social is the ethical Fediverse alternative as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Tyrtulia, a headless forum with no passwords, made for the terminal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tildes: The Shared Unix Computers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Org Social: the social network that survives its own infrastructure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built a WhatsApp client for Emacs without an API as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Websites that read in the terminal: the TermWeb standard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Justifying text by hand, now at 35 columns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I closed pull requests and issues on my projects, and I'm happier as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: My Python course for those who want to improve their skills as a story · 3 points
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