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FIGBERT
Personal blog · figbert.com/posts · on HN as figbertprogrammingwebculture
FIGBERT is a personal blog at figbert.com about programming, web and culture. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-19
- Quite the ReMarkable Device2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-23
- Ideating Tragit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-15
- macOS Control Center Is Better2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-09
- Moving to Hetzner Cloud from DigitalOcean2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-03
What Hacker News says?
I use Hetzner, personally. Did a bit of a cost analysis here: https://figbert.com/posts/moving-to-hetzner-from-digitalocea...
Comment linking /posts/moving-to-hetzner-from-digitalocean/
on “Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server”Submitted The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server as a story · 109 points
HN discussionMade something similar that is probably my proudest work: https://figbert.com/projects/roll-call/ I increasingly have come to believe that it is the screen itself that lies at the root of the ills of technology. It brings so much benefit—and so much convenience, from its flexibility—but it is in its fundamental glow-y rectangular nature that sucks us in, crushing our attention, posture, and so much else. Was incredi…
Comment linking /projects/roll-call/
on “Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer”Submitted How to Replace Keybase in 3 Easy Steps as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI discovered Radicle back in 2020 (when their website looked incredible: https://web.archive.org/web/20201201030505/https://radicle.x... ). I bounced off of it, in part due to being unable to effectively delete repositories. They used to have an FAQ about that—looks like it's gone now, though the public-private repository area is much more fleshed out (you can make a repo private, in which case no new updates will b…
Comment linking /posts/ideating-tragit/
on “Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git”Submitted Quite the ReMarkable Device as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://figbert.com coolest damn site on the net
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Moving to Hetzner Cloud from DigitalOcean as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pebkac: I Spent 2 Days Fixing a Bug That Didn't Exist as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ideating Tragit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quite the ReMarkable Device as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Control Center Is Better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Full Static with Zola as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Missing the Psychosis Forest for the AI Trees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Control Center is Better than iOS as a story · 1 points
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