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Bloerg Blog
Personal blog · bloerg.net · on HN as matthiasvprogrammingsystems
Bloerg Blog is a personal blog at bloerg.net about programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a Labella.js thread on placing timeline labels without overlap. The one comment discusses GV and Dia diagramming tools and engineer-built UIs, not the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I've been using GV for coming up on a decade and it has the same problem that Dia has - you can tell it was made by engineers. In the same way you can look at code written by a UX guy and just know it wasn't written by someone formally educated in CS, the converse applies when engineers try to do UI.* Engineers historically just cared about the functionality - e.g., "Does this UML depict the information as precisely…
Comment linking /2014/09/20/a-modern-beamer-theme.html
on “Labella.js – placing labels on a timeline without overlap”Submitted Modern LaTeX Beamer Theme Metropolis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHowever, CMake sucks in terms of installation paths. Ever tried installing a library into a libdir other than ${prefix}/lib? In the worst case, the developer tries to "fix" this by guessing the architecture and append a magical 64. This works on some distributions but of course not all of them. I got sick and tired of this situation and wrote a small CMake module [1] that accepts standard configure options to determ…
Comment linking /2013/10/29/turning-cmake-into-a-good-unix-citizen.html
on “Who helps your Linux distribution run smoothly? Thank a packager today”Submitted A modern Beamer theme as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> How do you deal with Cash? Move money from Asset:Checking to Expenses:Cash > How do you deal with interest? Move money from Income:Interest to Asset:Depot > How do you keep your bank statements? I download CSVs once in a while an import them with hledgers import tool (see https://bloerg.net/2016/02/22/ledger-import-of-deutsche-bank... ) > How do you convert your balance sheet into a tax filing compatible format? I…
Comment linking /2016/02/22/ledger-import-of-deutsche-bank-data.html
on “Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text Accounting”Submitted How to Install LibreOffice 5.3 from Flatpak on Ubuntu 16.04 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Jekyll ditaa plugin as a story · 1 points
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