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Ersei 'n Stuff
Personal blog · ersei.net/en/blogprogrammingsystems
Ersei 'n Stuff is a personal blog at ersei.net about programming and systems. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Booting Linux off of Google Drive”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog mainly for its fuse-root post on booting a machine from a FUSE filesystem such as Google Drive, and once for its niri post. The comments share the links without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi! I'm an HPC Solutions Engineer at KLA. Well, it appears that I have a website now. I wonder what I can do with it? I started as a self-taught software...
Most-linked posts?
- Booting Linux off of Google Drive6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-07-01
- The Future Is Niri3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-12
- Friendship Ended with Obsidian/LaTeX, Now Typst Is My Best Friend2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-27
- NixOS and My Descent into Insanity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-29
What Hacker News says?
Someone managed to boot a machine from a file system on Google Drive. https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root
Comment linking /en/blog/fuse-root
on “Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months”Submitted Booting Linux off of Google Drive as a story · 463 points
HN discussionYou could go the extreme and boot off Google Drive (or any other fuse FS). https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root
Comment linking /en/blog/fuse-root
on “Mullvad Leta”Submitted The Future Is Niri as a story · 423 points
HN discussionCeph provides S3-compatible object store no? If so, just use s3backer[1] with a loopback mount and boot[2] off it? I mean, sounds like a house of cards but, should be possible? [1]: https://github.com/archiecobbs/s3backer [2]: https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root
Comment linking /en/blog/fuse-root
on “Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration”Submitted “Privacy”.com–Yeah Right as a story · 151 points
HN discussionalias: alternis interests: Mathematics, First-Order Logic, Computability, Computer Science, Systems Programming, Finite Element Modelling/Analysis, Languages: English, French (But my french is only ok) Link to something you find interesting: https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root Contact Info: alternis(DOT)0x{11111111 in hex}@gmail.com
Comment linking /en/blog/fuse-root
on “Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?”Submitted Booting Linux Off of Google Drive as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> If I need a Gimp in every workspace I just open a Gimp in every workspace where I need one. Sticking with the workspace-per-project scenario: What if there's no room in the workspaces that need Gimp? Or what if you only want Gimp occasionally, so you don't want it to fight for layout with your important windows in each workspace. The downside of scratchpad is that you'll have many Gimps there, and they're disconne…
Comment linking /en/blog/niri
on “Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad”Submitted Friendship Ended with Obsidian/LaTeX, Now Typst Is My Best Friend as a story · 3 points
HN discussionvia: https://ersei.net/en/blog/niri
Comment linking /en/blog/niri
on a deleted threadSubmitted It's Nix All the Way Down as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted NixOS and My Descent into Insanity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perils of Running Your Own Mastodon Instance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Friendship Ended with Obsidian/LaTeX, Now Typst Is My Best Friend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean, Mean, Solitaire Machine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Programming Language in Twenty-Four Hours as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Magic Printers and Free Energy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye OpenVPN, and Hello Zerotier as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No IP? No Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing Bad Apple over RSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NixOS and My Descent into Insanity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye OpenVPN, and Hello Zerotier as a story · 1 points
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