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Artemis Everfree
Personal blog · artemis.shprogrammingsystemssecurity
Artemis Everfree's personal blog at artemis.sh covers programming, systems and security. Since 2021, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link artemis.sh for posts on running Oxide-style rack hardware at home, Wayland versus X, scrollbar design, and a Puppy Linux decision-making piece, plus a package manager murder mystery.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Called the 'Oxide at Home' post excellent; one commenter enjoyed the package manager murder mystery; another liked the Puppy Linux post enough to link it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
artemis’s projects and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-03-14
- More Oxide at Home: My Pi Is a Wireless Crucible4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-14
- Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-10-13
- I'm Tired of Making Decisions3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-15
- An X11 apologist tries Wayland3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-18
- The Workgirl Keyboard Layout3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-30
- Fast Synthesis of Basic Oscillators2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-24
- A System-Witch’s Package Manager Murder Mystery2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-11
- So, do you want to write?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-25
What Hacker News says?
> If you want to show progress while the reader is somewhere in the middle of a page, you could use a page progress bar. As best as I can tell, the standard name for these is 'scroll spy'. Gwern.nt mobile example: https://gwern.net/doc/design/2023-04-28-gwern-gwernnet-mobil... They are becoming increasingly common as web browsers/OSes kill scroll bars and you are forced to implement your own: https://artemis.sh/2023…
Comment linking /2023/10/12/scrollbars.html
on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted An X11 apologist tries Wayland as a story · 384 points
HN discussionI'm not aware of folks outside the company running the whole control plane, but people have definitely gotten parts of the system running at home: https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.htm... (The author of this blog post now works for Oxide!)
Comment linking /2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.html
on “Our $100M Series B”Submitted I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case as a story · 346 points
HN discussionI also found it confusing. I was wondering if it was this person's preferred pronoun but their Twitter [0] lists "she" as of "January 2022" and all the testimonials use "she" too [1]. [0]: https://twitter.com/EverfreeArtemis [1}: https://artemis.sh/
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on “Life at 800 MHz”Submitted Oxide on My Wrist: Hubris on PineTime was the best worst idea as a story · 272 points
HN discussionUhm... aren't you basically describing wayland? This Xorg dude did exactly the tuning you want on wayland https://artemis.sh/2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.ht...
Comment linking /2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.html
on “Computer Latency: 1977-2017”Submitted Life at 800 MHz as a story · 260 points
HN discussionJust to add some additional detail: the control plane (Omicron[0] -- named before the COVID variant!), the user-level portion of the hypervisor (Propolis[1]) and the storage subsystem (Crucible[2]) are all open source. And while our focus has been building them for our own product, we know that they are at least usable outside of Oxide![3][4] [0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron [1] https://github.com/oxidec…
Comment linking /2022/06/14/oxide-crucible.html
on “Oxide builds servers as they should be [audio]”Submitted My Unholy Battle with a Rock64 as a story · 216 points
HN discussionPosted this elsewhere in the thread but am repeating here: 900+ comment HN thread "Scrollbars are becoming a problem" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37864867 --> https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html which offers several solutions.
Comment linking /2023/10/12/scrollbars.html
on “I Want My Scrollbar Back”Submitted Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello as a story · 214 points
HN discussionSome solutions at https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html The Firefox solution worked for me.
Comment linking /2023/10/12/scrollbars.html
on “I Want My Scrollbar Back”Submitted Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM as a story · 162 points
HN discussionNot the same in any meaningful way but https://turingpi.com/product/turing-pi-2/ might interest you. Also https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.htm... Does illumos run on ARM?
Comment linking /2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.html
on “Oxide: The Cloud Computer”Submitted This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions as a story · 153 points
HN discussion> I would also be cool to sell a single compute unit with the cool fireware for home users. I seriously doubt that they're interested in commercially hitting that market, but they published enough software as open source that you can recreate chunks of of what they're doing on consumer hardware, ex. https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.htm...
Comment linking /2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.html
on “Navigating today’s supply chain challenges”Submitted A System-Witch’s Package Manager Murder Mystery as a story · 114 points
HN discussionIt's been done before! See the excellent "Oxide at Home" blog post [1], and HN discussion [2] [1] https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.htm... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30671447
Comment linking /2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.html
on “Oxide Computer, an efficient rack-scale computing system”Submitted Fast Lua Serialization (2023) as a story · 87 points
HN discussionhttps://artemis.sh/2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.ht... talks about it at length. It seems the main things missing for Talon are: - input emulation, doable via uinput but not great - standard way to query the list of windows and active focus - for dwell-click support, you need to be able to know if the user is moving their mouse or clicking so you can cancel your autoclick
Comment linking /2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.html
on “The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant”Submitted Could Hubris and WebAssembly Allow High-Level Hardware Emulation? as a story · 21 points
HN discussion> I don't remember if PCMCIA slots had enough bandwidth to make external video cards practical (plus... it would require a separate monitor, I guess), though. PCMCIA surely not, but express card most likely. I remember some mods installing an external GPU onto the mythical ThinkPad X220 by means of a bridge card that would fit in the express card slot and would allow a full pci-express to be connected. See: https://…
Comment linking /2021/08/04/eGPU-on-thinkpad-x220.html
on “Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive: 180W Power Adapter”Submitted An X11 apologist tries Wayland as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI've only got a second, but feel the need to highlight the Technical Interview series[1] and the many fan-works that pay homage to it. I enjoyed the anthropomorphising of a Package Manager Murder Mystery[2], and the creative writing of Common Tech Jobs Described as Cabals of Mesoamerican Wizards[3]. 1: https://aphyr.com/tags/interviews 2: https://artemis.sh/2022/04/11/package-manager-murder-mystery... 3. https://eti…
Comment linking /2022/04/11/package-manager-murder-mystery.html
on “Geek Mythology: The Religious, and Spiritual Folklore Surrounding Programming”Submitted So, do you want to write? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI liked this post about Puppy Linux so much it's linked on my home page (nvm that i dont have any other pages): https://artemis.sh/2022/07/15/decision-making-is-finite.html Might have less to do with the post and more to do with my own fond memories of Puppy and it's community
Comment linking /2022/07/15/decision-making-is-finite.html
on “a thread”Submitted I'm Tired of Making Decisions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you can't find it, it needs to be written as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I like gentoo's package deprecation process as a story · 2 points
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