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Arne Bahlo
Personal blog · arne.meprogrammingsystems
Arne Bahlo's personal blog at arne.me covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Emacs from Scratch, Part 1: Foundations”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Arne Bahlo's blog for posts on webrings, zero-config tools, an Emacs setup series and the Fire Chicken webring. Comments mostly cite or link the posts as references, with no praise or criticism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is my personal website.
Most-linked posts?
- Emacs from Scratch, Part 1: Foundations3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-22
- Archive Your Old Projects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-12
- Thoughts on Zig (After Three Nights)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-01
- Jujutsu (Jj) in Practice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-21
- We need more zero config tools2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-02
What Hacker News says?
It just works. — Steve Jobs Ref: https://arne.me/blog/we-need-more-zero-config-tools
Comment linking /blog/we-need-more-zero-config-tools
on “Ghostty 1.4”Submitted Using email wrong as a story · 184 points
HN discussionhttps://arne.me The color scheme is derived from the current commit sha. It's built using Zola [0] and Nix. See GitHub [1]. [0] https://www.getzola.org [1] https://github.com/bahlo/arne.me
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted We need more zero config tools as a story · 84 points
HN discussionBut what we can do is be the change we want. Just make my own little oasis. Find other oases and hook ‘em all up. Which then got me thinking about if there could be a special Web Classic experience we could voluntarily hook into. Webrings! See "We need to bring back webrings", https://arne.me/blog/we-need-to-bring-back-webrings and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706
Comment linking /blog/we-need-to-bring-back-webrings
on “The HTML Hobbyist (2022)”Submitted Emacs from Scratch Part Two as a story · 83 points
HN discussionIn part 1[0] of this series of posts, the author mentions they use Pragmata Pro [1]. [0]: https://arne.me/articles/emacs-from-scratch-part-one-foundat... [1]: https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/
Comment linking /articles/emacs-from-scratch-part-one-foundations
on “Emacs from Scratch Part Two”Submitted Bits of Advice for 30 Years as a story · 20 points
HN discussionShameless plug: https://arne.me/weekly
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on “Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing?”Submitted Emacs from Scratch, Part 1: Foundations as a story · 15 points
HN discussionCounter-example. Have used literate programming for a real-life freelance project a year ago. Am using it for both my private projects and current freelance projects. The manual can be broken down into four parts or volumes depending on size: I. User's Guide II. User's Reference Manual III. Maintainer's Guide IV. Maintainer's Reference Manual Don't get this wrong, updating the screenshots in the User's Guide is anno…
Comment linking /articles/archive-your-old-projects
on “The CWEB System of Structured Documentation”Submitted Jujutsu (Jj) in Practice as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe author of that post is also the person who created Fire Chicken https://github.com/bahlo/firechicken.club https://arne.me/
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on “Fire Chicken Webring”Submitted I Lived 7 Days without a Smartphone as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy experience has been that after having become comfortable with Nix, self-hosting is the path of least resistance for the majority of "mainstream" tooling where you can pick between paying for a SaaS or self-hosting. So nice to not have to deal with Docker containers to deploy (most things) anymore. I see a lot of people suggesting hosting on a VPS, but I feel that a Hetzner Auction box is often much better bang-fo…
Comment linking /blog/plex-on-nixos
on “Self Hosted SaaS Alternatives”Submitted Deploy Octopress, the right way as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built a NAS (Buildlog) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jujutsu in Practice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Zig (After Three Nights) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DIY Music Streaming with NixOS, Jellyfin and Manet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Need to Bring Back Webrings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing an SDK in Zig, Part 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Favorite Articles of 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs from Scratch, Part 1: Foundations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plex on NixOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Zig as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Archive Your Old Projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static OG (Open Graph) Images in Astro as a story · 1 points
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