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Bit Cannon

Personal blog · bitcannon.netsystemsprogramming

Bit Cannon is a personal blog at bitcannon.net about systems and programming. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “A Year Away from Mac OS”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2018

Recent posts on Bit Cannon

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Year Away from Mac OS
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-03-05
  2. Stardew Valley on FreeBSD
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-25
  3. Finding an Alternative to iOS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-14
  4. A Month on Chimera Linux
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. seltzered_ · 2018-04-08
    Wrote about this elsewhere, but the eve v is fascinating in how one could theoretically raise the display higher up and still use the bluetooth keyboard. http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/ also wrote briefly about it, and supposedly it'll run Fedora according to https://eve.community/t/summary-of-linux-and-the-eve-v-statu... . Despite being fairly married to the mac platform I'm really curious, and h…

    Comment linking /post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/

    on “Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?”
  2. wezm · 2017-01-03

    Submitted Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X as a story · 349 points

    HN discussion
  3. ktosobcy · 2018-04-08
    There is na nice, related blog post (part of a series about switching form macOS to Linux): http://bitcannon.net/post/replacing-a-macbook-pro/

    Comment linking /post/replacing-a-macbook-pro/

    on “Ask HN: Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?”
  4. wezm · 2017-01-29

    Submitted Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X – Part 2 as a story · 168 points

    HN discussion
  5. wezm · 2017-01-03
    New post about GNOME on FreeBSD is up: http://bitcannon.net/post/gnome3-on-freebsd/

    Comment linking /post/gnome3-on-freebsd/

    on “Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X”
  6. wezm · 2019-06-02

    Submitted A Tiling Desktop Environment as a story · 147 points

    HN discussion
  7. zepto · 2020-09-15
    The claim that Android is open source has long been false. Yes, there is AOSP, but that’s only a small part of what constitutes an OS these days. Here’s a link to a post showing how dismal things are: https://bitcannon.net/post/finding-an-alternative-to-ios/

    Comment linking /post/finding-an-alternative-to-ios/

    on “Apple Fitness+”
  8. wezm · 2018-03-05

    Submitted A Year Away from Mac OS as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  9. wezm · 2017-01-29
    Interesting. I see it now and I was expecting this to be an issue with switching but I haven't really noticed it. Here are the same words rendered by macOS (9pt Open Sans): http://bitcannon.net/images/2017/open-sans-on-macos.png I think it's showing similar spacing.

    Comment linking /images/2017/open-sans-on-macos.png

    on “Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X – Part 2”
  10. wezm · 2019-10-06

    Submitted Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  11. lobster_johnson · 2017-01-29
    As a Mac user, whenever I run Linux, I get depressed about how bad the font rendering is. It's getting better, though it sometimes requires installing a special non-free version of Freetype and setting some global config that I can never remember. I always lose track of which distros get it right without requiring any tweaks. However: While the glyph rendering in the article's screenshots looks quite, the kerning is…

    Comment linking /images/2017/4k-elementary.png

    on “Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X – Part 2”
  12. kristianp · 2018-11-26

    Submitted Stardew Valley on FreeBSD as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  13. wezm · 2018-03-05
    This is the link http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/

    Comment linking /post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/

    on “A Year Away from Mac OS”
  14. wezm · 2020-09-14

    Submitted Finding an Alternative to iOS as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  15. wezm · 2019-10-06
    I built a 12 core/24 thread Ryzen 9 machine: https://bitcannon.net/page/ryzen9-pc/

    Comment linking /page/ryzen9-pc/

    on “Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro”
  16. vermaden · 2018-11-25

    Submitted Stardew Valley on FreeBSD as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. ben40 · 2018-06-05
    Still mainly a Mac user that has tried to explore making the switch, but here is a blog post that is a great read on the topic. http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/

    Comment linking /post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/

    on “Ask HN: How did you transition from Mac to Linux?”
  18. susam · 2023-07-16

    Submitted A Month on Chimera Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. jandeboevrie · 2023-07-15

    Submitted A Month on Chimera Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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