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Cal Bryant

Personal blog · calbryant.uk/blog · on HN as naggiehardwareprogramming

Cal Bryant's personal blog at calbryant.uk covers hardware and programming. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “How to get the best out of your Yubikey with GPG”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
8HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2025

DIY builds and deep technical guides on software, Linux, electronics, 3D printing, and FPV drones. Written by Cal Bryant, medtech engineer and maker.

The author on HN?

naggie · 395 karma · member since 2013

https://calbryant.uk/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to get the best out of your Yubikey with GPG
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-03
  2. The “Ultimate” ThinkPad
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-04
  3. Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Cool! I did a similar thing manually with python and terminal colours https://calbryant.uk/blog/destroying-the-right-server-with-c...

    Comment linking /blog/destroying-the-right-server-with-colour-association/

    on “How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS”
  2. Submitted Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana as a story · 258 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Show HN: 3D printing giant things with a Python jigsaw generator as a story · 179 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The “Ultimate” ThinkPad (2020) as a story · 154 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Getting the best out of OpenSCAD as a story · 118 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Show HN: Design/build of some parametric speaker cabinets with OpenSCAD as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Rackmounting that which should not be rackmounted as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted How to get the best out of your Yubikey with GPG as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The “Ultimate” ThinkPad as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Training a new voice for Piper TTS with only a single phrase as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The "Ultimate" ThinkPad X230 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Parametric Speaker Cabinet Design as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted FPV Drone Simulator 2000 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Large Horn Subwoofer Build as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The “Ultimate” ThinkPad as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How to get the best out of your Yubikey with GPG (2020) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Semi-automatic whole-house iPhone internet failover with NixOS (2024) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted How to get the best out of your Yubikey with GPG (2020) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Better PC Cooling with Python and Grafana as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted CNC Routing: Speeds and Feeds as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Destroying the right server with colour association (2023) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Semi-automatic whole-house iPhone internet failover as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Destroying the Right Server as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Modifying my Gaggia Classic Espresso machine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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