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fireborn
Personal blog · fireborn.mataroa.blog/blogprogrammingsystems
fireborn is a personal blog at fireborn.mataroa.blog about programming and systems. Since 2025, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on blind software development and Linux and Wayland accessibility, plus pieces on Android developer verification and self-hosting. Some commenters judge its recent writing as LLM-generated.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-06-19
- I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-10
- The Slow Death of the Power User3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-25
- I Made a Keyboard Nobody Asked For: My Experience Making TapType3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-24
- Why the hell does Android even exist anymore?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-04
- Damage Control2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-20
- HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-29
- You Don't Own the Word "Freedom"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
What Hacker News says?
WSL 2 is one of the biggest reasons I'm able to be productive as a blind software developer. With it I'm able to enjoy the best desktop screen reader accessibility (Windows and NVDA) as well as the best developer tools (Linux). I hate Microsoft's AI and ads force-feeding as much as anyone else but trust me, you'd do the same if you were in my shoes. Screen reader accessibility on Mac Os is stagnating even faster tha…
Comment linking /blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/
on “The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source”Submitted The Audio Stack Is a Crime Scene as a story · 83 points
HN discussionVery good article. After read about the poor scenario where the Linux accessibility tools is today ( https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-d... ), I was wondering: if maybe the developers start to use these accessibility tools to improve their speed reading (and productivity as well), this could also helps to prioritize the accessibility features and bug fixes in Gnome, KDE, Qt, etc.
Comment linking /blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/
on “Software Development at 800 Words per Minute”Submitted I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back as a story · 71 points
HN discussionhttps://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/why-the-hell-does-android... It's disappointing that google has turned evil. I loved how easy it waa to mod things in the beginning. All that is now gone.
Comment linking /blog/why-the-hell-does-android-even-exist-anymore/
on “Answering questions about Android developer verification”Submitted Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSomeone's been writing a great series on accessibility for the blind in Linux https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-d...
Comment linking /blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/
on “An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog”Submitted Why the hell does Android even exist anymore? as a story · 38 points
HN discussionIronically, X11 supports "diverse" people better than Wayland does. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-d...
Comment linking /blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
on “Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups”Submitted You Don't Own the Word "Freedom" as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThat was concrete justification for the underlying vibe. I have no idea what your long form writing looks like. But can you look at something like this https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/if-you-recognize-me-in-pu... and seriously come out of it not thinking it's AI slop? > The version of me you know — the writer, the ranter, the one who tears into accessibility failures or rips Linux a new one — that’s a persona. >…
Comment linking /blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/
on “The Slow Death of the Power User”Submitted GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People as a story · 32 points
HN discussionInteresting, did not know that. The writing feels undoubtedly LLM generated to me regardless, which is a trend in their other blogs too. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/if-you-recognize-me-in-pu... is the worst offender.
Comment linking /blog/if-you-recognize-me-in-public-dont-come-over-to-talk-about-my-work/
on “The Slow Death of the Power User”Submitted The Slow Death of the Power User as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSee this comment for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380075#46381858 Here is a slightly-hopeful article: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-d...
Comment linking /blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
on “Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig”Submitted You Don't Own the Word "Freedom": A Full-Burn Response as a story · 14 points
HN discussionFor the past decade or so, many children had no access to real computers. Before covid, many households either only had school-issued chromebooks, or only smartphones. With covid causing a rise in remote schooling, many families got laptops, but again often only locked-down chromebooks. There's adults nowadays that do their taxes on their phone, cut videos on their phone, and edit spreadsheets on their phone. And wh…
Comment linking /blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
on “"This Is Not the Computer for You"”Submitted I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 - Console Access as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThe fact that I keep hearing people have issues because it's now the default doesn't fill me with confidence. It's probably a minority of people having these issues, and I imagine the problems with screensharing and the like are gone by this point, but accessibility tools which need access to everything X gave them are never going to be compatible without being completely rewritten with Wayland in mind. I'm also not…
Comment linking /blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
on “The Switch to Linux and the Beginning of My Self-Hosting Journey”Submitted HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Outside the Scope of Our Support as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Aware of What's in Your Logs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Slow Death of the Power User as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Thank You, Where It's Due as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Still Can't Make an Accessibility Menu Accessible as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starmer, the Under-16s Are Smarter Than You as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have You Tried Turning TalkBack Off and on Again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop for the Rest of Us as a story · 2 points
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