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Fluffy and Flakey
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Fluffy and Flakey is a personal blog at fluffyandflakey.blog about programming and hardware. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Fluffy and Flakey posts on thermal management, including Peltier (TEC) cooling and repasting a MacBook, and on rewriting a website in plain HTML and CSS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
TECs are wonderful little devices with operating characteristics unlike comparable devices. They can be designed to move a specific amount of heat or to cool at some delta-T below the hot side (and due to inefficiencies the hot side can climb above ambient temperatures too, raising the “cold side” above ambient!) I ran through a design exercise with a high quality TEC and at 8°C delta-T for a wine cooler you could e…
Comment linking /2019/08/29/cooling-a-cpu-with-tecs/
on “Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling”Submitted Functional PHP (2015) as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSeveral years ago I replaced the thermal paste in my MacBook Pro and I did it in two steps: first to high-end paste; and second to liquid metal. The results were impressive, and I think it’s a bit veiled how paste degradation over time impacts perceived laptop speeds. I’ve been tempted to replace the paste on new devices but haven’t taken that plunge. https://fluffyandflakey.blog/2019/04/13/increasing-thermal-h...
Comment linking /2019/04/13/increasing-thermal-headroom/
on “Repasting a MacBook”Submitted Rooting Out Gremlins as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI’ve become quite a fan of writing in SGML personally, because much of what you note is spot-on. Some of the points seem a bit of a stretch though. Any type-checking inside of SGML is more akin to unused-variable checking. When you say that macros/entities may contain parameters, I think you are referring to recursive entity expansion, which does let you parameterize macros (but only once, and not dynamically within…
Comment linking /2024/10/11/ugml-a-proposal-to-update-sgml/
on “Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS”Submitted The big and Small of JavaScript numbers (2017) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is a GitHub Pull Request merge branch? (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Common HTML Myths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Explorations in Agentic Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Explorations in Agentic Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pushing Upstream as a story · 1 points
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