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Flemming's Blog

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Flemming's Blog is a personal blog at flemmingss.com about hardware and programming. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on importing album track data from Discogs and other sources when ripping CDs to FLAC. One comment also cites it on open-source smart home hardware.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper https://github.com/thomas-mc-work/most-possible-unattended-r... Finding a good CD drive to rip them is the first step. https://flemmingss.com/importing-data-from-discogs-and-other... IME Discogs had the track data most often. And obviously rip to flac

    Comment linking /importing-data-from-discogs-and-others-to-musicbrainz/

    on “BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem”
  2. Submitted Perfect CD-Ripping to FLAC with Exact Audio Copy as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. That one was pretty obvious to everyone, open hard- and software is a must for the longevity of (internet of) things that cost < USD 1000. It's the sad reality we settled on in our weird economic system, and every once in a while someone needs to relearn it the hard way: No company is going to offer support for cheap things, so it must be done by an open (source) community. I've settled on a ZigStar Stick for my alw…

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2021/09/zigbee2mqtt_setup_gui_dashboard-1024x683.png

    on “Why the Smart Home Bubble Popped”
  4. Submitted Monitoring Paperless-Ngx in Home-Assistant as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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