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BrixIT Blog
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BrixIT Blog is a personal blog at blog.brixit.nl about hardware and systems. Since 2016, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “Git email flow vs. GitHub flow”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Random blog posts from Martijn Braam
Most-linked posts?
- Git email flow vs. GitHub flow5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-12-30
- Why I left Pine643 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-08-17
- Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-04
- NitroKey Disappoints Me3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-25
- Squirrel Strings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-05
- A Rant about Resolutions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-17
- Comparing Hare to Rust and Zig2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-03
- Megapixels 2.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-18
- Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-08
- /pinephone-camera-pt4/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-15
What Hacker News says?
Read https://blog.brixit.nl/git-email-flow-versus-github-flow/ and lots of articles by ddevault/sircmpwn about git-send-email on various discussion boards including HN.
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on “Open-source, not open-contribution”Submitted The end of the nice GTK button as a story · 878 points
HN discussionI came across the tweet about this "Evil" dongle and instantly recognized it as the exact same thing I worked on before... It's not evil, it's just annoying. https://blog.brixit.nl/making-a-usb-ethernet-adapter-work-sr... In my case I disabled the SPI flash module to have it not appear as a CD drive, the author of this post actually found some documentation about the SPI being optional. Funnily enough this post now…
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on “Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle”Submitted Do you really want Linux phones as a story · 511 points
HN discussionHah I did a similar thing a few days ago using their 6" paper display. https://blog.brixit.nl/epaper/ I chose to use the usb interface since had a server running to attach it to already
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on “Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard”Submitted Why I left Pine64 as a story · 504 points
HN discussionSourceHut author here. Not sure what you're trying to say. The opposite is also true: using GitHub requires that your would-be contributors conform to the pull request workflow instead -- and many people prefer emails. If anyone is skeptical about the email workflow, here's a write-up from another skeptic: https://blog.brixit.nl/git-email-flow-versus-github-flow/
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on “Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub”Submitted Making a Linux-managed network switch as a story · 264 points
HN discussionThe camera will certainly getting better with the time. Martijn Braam, a postmarketOS dev is already doing a very good job improving the software side of the problem with his Megapixel application: https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-pt4/ .
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on “PinePhone – KDE Community edition”Submitted Going IPv6 Only as a story · 221 points
HN discussionI don't use the camera really, but here's some pictures from the camera app dev: https://blog.brixit.nl/camera-on-the-pinephone/ https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-part-2/ https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-adventures-part-3/ https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-pt4/
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on “PINE64 December Update”Submitted Git email flow vs. GitHub flow as a story · 210 points
HN discussionIt's interesting seeing how camera support is the biggest gaping hole in the open source smart phone world. For example, almost everything in this graph is green, except for the camera column: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices It's a complicated problem: https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-part-2/ But, in a world where open source almost always exceeds the commercial offerings, I'm surprised this is the…
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on “Libcamera v0.0.1”Submitted Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040 as a story · 177 points
HN discussionFor some additional context: https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32494659 > Supporting Manjaro has historically done very little to facilitate the development of the software stack which is necessary for these devices [Pinephone/Pinephone Pro] to work. In some cases the Manjaro involvement actually causes extra workload for the developers by shipping known broken…
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on “Do not ship work in progress: An open letter”Submitted Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs as a story · 122 points
HN discussion> …does “letting community down” matters? Yes. A lot of contributors from the community put countless hours on making software work on this hardware. And a lot of work still needs to be done. If the hardware vendor turns its back on the community, that'll drive developers away, demotivate them or burn them out. See also: https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ > can’t you just… put your own OS on there or whatever…
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on “PINE64 has let its community down”Submitted Taking Pictures the Hard Way as a story · 44 points
HN discussionRelated: https://blog.brixit.nl/developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak/
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on “Flatpak is not the future (2021)”Submitted Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root as a story · 40 points
HN discussion- 0l · 2023-05-01
While perhaps true in many cases, this example was untrue: https://blog.brixit.nl/nitrokey-dissapoints-me/
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on “Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical” Submitted Finding an SBC as a story · 36 points
HN discussionThis post reminded me of the blog posts [0] regarding the "megapixels" camera app for the pinephone , written by Martijn Braam. For those interested it dives quite deep into the color profiling and noise reduction and more to make the pinephone camera usefull. [0] https://blog.brixit.nl/tag/megapixels/
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on “What an unprocessed photo looks like”Submitted Digital Audio Mixer Pt.2 as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThe problem is up-streaming kernel patches shouldn't be a Mobian thing or a pmOS thing, it should be an entire community working together for it (and IMHO, Pine64 should be leading the part to making a healthy community and contributing to it). For at least the OG Pinephone, that community has more or less dried up. Many of the original folks that wanted to help moved on to other devices (or just left the community…
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on “The Paperweight Dilemma”Submitted Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThe third and fourth requests even de-Googled (Qualcomm) phones make is to download the GPS almanac. You don't have to wait because it downloads over wifi or cellular, which have gotten pretty quick. There was a recent kerfuffle about this [0]. [0] https://blog.brixit.nl/nitrokey-dissapoints-me/
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on “Why Is GPS Free?”Submitted Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIn the old days, the age-old cry of the beleaguered developer was “My code isn’t buggy, it works on my machine!”, to which the response was “Well, we’re not shipping your machine to the customer!”. Well, science marches on, and we’ve invented a way to do exactly that. Instead of, you know, writing actually robust and simple-to-deploy software. See also: < https://blog.brixit.nl/developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak/ >
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on “The Curse of Docker”Submitted Git email flow vs. GitHub flow as a story · 8 points
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