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fitzsim's development log
Personal blog · fitzsim.org/bloghardwaresystems
fitzsim's development log is a personal blog at fitzsim.org about hardware and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its development write-ups: building a uLisp Lisp Badge from parts, a Mezzano OS grub module on Librebooted ThinkPads, and browsing Mastodon from Emacs with EWW.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-07
What Hacker News says?
https://www.fitzsim.org/screenshots/grub-mezzano-module-1.we...
Comment linking /screenshots/grub-mezzano-module-1.webm
on “Mezzano on Librebooted ThinkPads”Submitted Mezzano on Librebooted ThinkPads as a story · 226 points
HN discussionI recently built three of these. There's no kit, so to build one you have acquire all the parts and learn TQFP soldering. The result is a really neat little computer. I did a write-up on my blog: https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=365
Comment linking /blog/?p=365
on “Lisp Badge: A single-board computer that you can program in uLisp”Submitted Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNice, I'd like to follow this. I tried browsing there with EWW, but I'm blocked by an "Enable JavaScript" message. This seems to be a Mastodon 4.x thing; 3.5.x servers work great in EWW (read-only at least). I'm hoping there's some ?nojs=1 type workaround that I haven't found yet. I wrote a blog post about this just the other day: https://www.fitzsim.org/blog/?p=465
Comment linking /blog/?p=465
on “A Mastodon instance for Emacs enthusiasts”>Can you install your own OS? If yes, you own it. Not before connecting it to the internet, even Pixels will go through hundreds of megabytes of data before allowing you to unlock them (see 0). Also, will Google let me browse the web with "my own OS" without their proprietary services installed on it? (see 1) And without developers pouring tens of thousands of work hours into making projects such as GrapheneOS viabl…
Comment linking /blog/?p=545
on “Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB”