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anonyfox.com
Personal blog · anonyfox.com/blog · on HN as anonyfoxprogrammingstartups
anonyfox.com is a personal blog at anonyfox.com about programming and startups. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “The Renaissance of Meteor.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link anonyfox.com's posts on web page speed, an Elixir grimoire and tools such as a savings calculator. Comments praise the site's crispness and one reader says it taught them something.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hey there! I'm Max, Software Sensei and Growth Hacker.
Most-linked posts?
- /cv2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-17
- The Renaissance of Meteor.js2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-02
- Need for Speed2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Aside from the raw size, there are more optimizations that can be done while still having a modern-ish visual result (Shameless self plug: https://anonyfox.com/blog/need-for-speed/ )
Comment linking /blog/need-for-speed/
on “A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page”Submitted I Failed to Transform the Enterprise as a story · 151 points
HN discussionFollow up: I just added some social sharing buttons, but without impacting page performance. The snippet is here: https://anonyfox.com/spells/frontend-social-buttons-without-... Very basic but does the job I'd say. :)
Comment linking /spells/frontend-social-buttons-without-javascript/
on “In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved”Submitted The Renaissance of Meteor.js as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAlignment of list on https://anonyfox.com/grimoire/elixir/ seems a bit off. Love the style though. Very crisp, very snappy.
Comment linking /grimoire/elixir/
on “In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved”Submitted Meditation for Hackers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey brother, I made an account just to reply to your comment, I enjoyed your website and grew my knowledge reading it. Just wanted to let you know there's a typo @ https://anonyfox.com/tools/savings-calculator/ ```Aside from raw luck this ist still the best```
Comment linking /tools/savings-calculator/
on “In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved”Submitted AI Alignment Problem: a fresh perspective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI just rewrote my personal website ( https://anonyfox.com ) to become statically generated (zola, runs via github Action) so the result is just plain and speedy HTML. I even used a minimal classless „css framework“ and ontop I am hosting everything via cloudflare workers sites, so visitors should get served right from CDN edge locations. No JS or tracking included. As snappy as I could imagine, and I hope that this…
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on “In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved”Submitted From Software to Physics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently did my part to speed up my site: https://anonyfox.com/blog/need-for-speed/ So i‘d assume that it‘s possible to make „the Web“ really fast, especially when factoring in the improvements of network/cpu over the years.
Comment linking /blog/need-for-speed/
on “Is the web getting slower?”Submitted The Solopreneur and AI Assistants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocation: Hamburg, Germany Remote: yes when timezone is reasonable Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Rust, Elixir, Go, JS Résumé/CV: https://anonyfox.com/cv Email: max@anonyfox.com —- Either Fullstack (senior/…/principlal), DevOps, or Team Lead, whatever - I grew up with having to do all the roles back in the day. What matters most is doing something _real_, not another purely digital product/service or crypto s…
Comment linking /cv
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)”Submitted Speedrunning Software Shipping with Go and LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBased on his CV, probably Aida.de: https://anonyfox.com/cv
Comment linking /cv
on “I Failed to Transform the Enterprise”Submitted The Renaissance of Meteor.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocation: Hamburg, Germany Remote: yes when timezone is reasonable Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Rust, Go, Elixir, JS/TS, Cloud stuff, AI/ML/Math, ... Résumé/CV: https://anonyfox.com/cv Email: max@anonyfox.com —- Either Fullstack (senior/…/principlal), DevOps, Architect, or Team Lead/CTO, whatever - I grew up with having to do all the roles back in the day, from Startup Growth Hacking over Scale-Up Optimizat…
Comment linking /cv
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)”Submitted Need for Speed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocation: Hamburg, Germany Remote: yes when timezone is reasonable Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Rust, Go, Elixir, JS/TS, Cloud stuff, AI/ML/Math, ... Résumé/CV: https://anonyfox.com/cv Email: max@anonyfox.com —- Either Fullstack (senior/…/principlal), DevOps, Architect, or Team Lead/CTO, whatever - I grew up with having to do all the roles back in the day, from Startup Growth Hacking over Scale-Up Optimizat…
Comment linking /cv
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)”Submitted Upgrading Myself in 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOk then I‘ll do it: https://anonyfox.com/blog/the-renaissance-of-meteor-js/ scnr
Comment linking /blog/the-renaissance-of-meteor-js/
on “I'm excited about Darklang”Submitted Lean Backend Miniaturization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://anonyfox.com
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Anyone sharing the disappointment with NextJS, please have a second look at https://www.meteor.com/ again. It is much more powerful in terms of backend/frontend communication and reactivity, and even though there was a huge downturn some years ago, its picking up steam again. Importantly: it has been around for roughly a decade now and in most cases "just works", and you can even pick the frontend lib you like (reac…
Comment linking /blog/the-renaissance-of-meteor-js/
on “Next.js App Router Update”