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Brain Baking
Personal blog · brainbaking.comprogramminghardwaregames
Brain Baking is a personal blog at brainbaking.com about programming, hardware and games. Since 2018, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 106 times, most often “Is It Worth It to Optimize Images for Your Site?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Brain Baking | Freshly Baked Thoughts
Most-linked posts?
- Is It Worth It to Optimize Images for Your Site?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-23
- Cool things people do with their blogs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-29
- An Ode to the Game Boy Advance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-27
- The PicoGUS, a Modern ISA Sound Card2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-15
- When Is a Site Considered a Blog?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-23
- The internet is no longer a safe haven2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-31
- Banning Syntax Highlighting Steroids2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-01
- 25 Years of ADSL Speed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-11
- No Time to Learn (Web) Framework X2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
- The Challenge of Buying Games at Physical Stores2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-07
What Hacker News says?
The look at his old desktop hit hard ( https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/11/desktop-screenshots-of-... ). I recently switched back to Ubuntu, but I was using Regolith with a similar look for a while and I loved it. Unfortunately, having a tiling WM when most apps don't expect it mean you run into all sorts of corner cases that the app developer didn't think of. No hope of resolution either.
Comment linking /post/2020/11/desktop-screenshots-of-olde/
on “I Miss BSD/Linux”Submitted The internet is no longer a safe haven as a story · 253 points
HN discussionhttps://maggieappleton.com/ for her take on a digital garden. She also compiled more below [0] if opening your thought process to the public is your thing (adopting the concept actually got me to add more structure to my serious notes and actually post more) https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works because of how in-depth he went with hosting his notes, bookmarks, and other projects. https://wattenberger.…
Comment linking /post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-with-their-blogs/
on “Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?”Submitted Cool things people do with their blogs as a story · 246 points
HN discussionsuch things do exist: https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-SDHC-Adapter-40Pin-Driver/dp/... https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/09/486-upgrade-sd-hdd/ https://www.drem.info/ http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
Comment linking /post/2020/09/486-upgrade-sd-hdd/
on “MouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers”Submitted My sourdough starter has twins as a story · 219 points
HN discussion- https://satyrs.eu/ - https://brainbaking.com/ - https://brianlovin.com/ - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - https://css-irl.info/ - https://protesilaos.com/ - https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ - https://publicdomainreview.org/ And, more for content than design (though I do like the look) - https://www.newyorker.com/ - https://www.theparisreview.org/ - https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
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on “Ask HN: What websites are you inspired by?”Submitted Error Handling in Baby Toys as a story · 169 points
HN discussionhttps://brainbaking.com/post/2022/08/six-months-with-pi-hole...
Comment linking /post/2022/08/six-months-with-pi-hole/
on “dit.whatsapp.net: Data Collection on WhatsApp (2021)”Submitted I don’t need a Steam Machine as a story · 145 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pimp Your Board Games as a story · 126 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Miss BSD/Linux as a story · 94 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ode to the Game Boy Advance as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case of a leaky goroutine as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go should sometimes be a no-go as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 11 Design Mistakes as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Decline of Battery Life (2021) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Bad Is Link Rot? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from Gitea to Codeberg as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Downsides of Vintage Hardware as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet Is No Longer a Safe Haven as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating a Blogroll with OPML in Hugo (2022) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Are Software Engineers (Not) Engineers? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The PC Does What Nintendon't: Modding Games as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Ode to the Game Boy Advance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The PicoGUS, a Modern ISA Sound Card as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Is a Site Considered a Blog? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Contact with Emulation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smartphone Pervasiveness as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The environmental impact of cloud computing as a story · 4 points
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