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Colin Leroy-Mira
Personal blog · colino.net/wordpresshardwareprogramming
Colin Leroy-Mira's personal blog at colino.net covers hardware and programming. Since 2018, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Glider for Apple II”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Colin Leroy-Mira's blog covers topics such as Claws Mail and HTML email rendering, and an accessible Apple II Mastodon client. The comments only cite its posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome on Colin Leroy-Mira's personal website. Sections : Blog : I ended up with a blog. In english and french, about whatever interests me. JEPUT : A little tool I use to keep track of my bank account's contents. Resume : I'm a systems administrator in Toulouse, France Photos (restricted
Most-linked posts?
- Glider for Apple II2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-24
- Optimizing a 6502 image decoder – part II: assembly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-03
What Hacker News says?
You need to enable a plugin for html mail, but the plugin ships with claws. Up until 2013 the best option was a janky GtkHtml based plugin (about as good as average html e-mail renderings from early 00s, so not good), the current one is webkit based and works great[1] What do you mean by "default mail https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2013/03/14/claws-m... being non-standard"? you don't need a script to orde…
Comment linking /wordpress/archives/2013/03/14/claws-mails-fancy-html-rendering-plugin-on-windows/
on “Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time”Submitted Optimizing a 6502 image decoder, from 70 minutes to 1 minute as a story · 195 points
HN discussionThere are two on this page https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2023/02/07/accessi... (Climate stats and graph)
Comment linking /wordpress/archives/2023/02/07/accessing-the-internet-with-an-apple-c/
on “MastApple//C, a Mastodon client for the Apple II (//C and ][e)”Submitted Glider for Apple II as a story · 114 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yes, the Apple II MouseCard IRQ is synced to the VBL as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sierra digital cameras on the Apple II as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing a 6502 image decoder – part II: assembly as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted MastApple//C, a Mastodon client for the Apple II (//C and ][e) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glider for Apple II as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted WozTubes – an Apple II Invidious and PeerTube client – colin colino.net as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading my Apple II serial setup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto-Levelling or Histogram Equalization? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assembling the CISD (Colin's Integrated Serial Device) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing a Quicktake 150 serial connector as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PCBWay sponsorship: full-size SD module for Arduino projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted BurgerDisk News as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted BurgerDisk Tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing a 6502 image decoder – part II: assembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IInvidious – An Apple II Invidious and PeerTube Client as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wozamp – an Apple II music and video player as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastodon for Apple II as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zxloader.system: a compressed binary loader for Apple II as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is reviewing AI even possible? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thumbnail Decoding Challenge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SixForty – photo sharing for the Apple II as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Macintosh Serial Cable as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Apple II chainable hard drives? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II as a story · 1 points
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