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Felix Plesoianu
Personal blog · felix.plesoianu.ro/web/logwritingwebprogramming
Felix Plesoianu writes Felix at Home, a personal blog at felix.plesoianu.ro about writing, web and programming. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on an alternative, lightweight web. The one comment here points to Gopher and a simple markup language for constrained devices like old laptops and feature phones.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a writer who struggles to tell stories. A programmer who struggles to write code. Just a ghost of social networks past, haunting the web.
What Hacker News says?
> something really lightweight Gopher is still a thing which would very much be editable and displayable on old laptops or mobile phones (even feature phones which only have J2ME [1]). Some people have been working on a vaguely similar lightweight protocol and markup language [2], which should be simple enough to render in a sane manner even on very constrained systems. IMO, it'd be more interesting than something b…
Comment linking /mobile/pocket-gopher/index.html
on “Society Needs an Alternative Web”Submitted Notes on the Small Web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ripen Scripting Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Websites for Humans as a story · 1 points
HN discussion