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George Mandis
Personal blog · george.mand.is · on HN as georgemandisprogrammingwriting
George Mandis's personal blog at george.mand.is covers programming and writing. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “What "ten sorts in ten languages" say about the abstraction we're living through”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on the design of Bubo, a minimalist RSS reader built as a build script that generates a static page. The posts explain the author's approach to the reader.
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.
Traveler, software engineer, consultant, mentor, writer and other hats as needed.
Most-linked posts?
- What "ten sorts in ten languages" say about the abstraction we're living through2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-28
- Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-16
- /2019/11/introducing-bubo-rss-an-absurdly-minimalist-rss-feed-reader/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-16
- Tezcatl: A 2MB alternative to Puppeteer for scraping on macOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-29
What Hacker News says?
I found this reader recently that you might find meets your consumption preference: https://github.com/georgemandis/bubo-rss The author discusses the design here: https://george.mand.is/2019/11/introducing-bubo-rss-an-absur...
Comment linking /2019/11/introducing-bubo-rss-an-absurdly-minimalist-rss-feed-reader/
on “Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)”Submitted OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio as a story · 740 points
HN discussionHey all, I wanted to share this solution to a minimalist RSS Feed Reader by George Mandis, who wrote a great blog post about his approach here: https://george.mand.is/2019/11/introducing-bubo-rss-an-absur... Essentially, the reader is nothing but a build script that is routinely run to build a static web page that can then be published to Netlify/Vercel/Github pages/etc. Anyway, I was using Inoreader for about a yea…
Comment linking /2019/11/introducing-bubo-rss-an-absurdly-minimalist-rss-feed-reader/
on “Bubo Reader: An irrationally minimalist RSS feed reader”Submitted Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code as a story · 164 points
HN discussionJust noticed this is getting some traffic! It's a little buried in the post, but I made an interactive tool for exploring surrogate pairs as part of this: - https://george.mand.is/invalid-surrogate-pairs/ I thought it was something that's easier to play with and feel than necessarily just read about.
Comment linking /invalid-surrogate-pairs/
on “My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs”Submitted Facebook Recruiter Correspondence as a story · 156 points
HN discussionSubmitted What "ten sorts in ten languages" say about the abstraction we're living through as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Than Music with MIDI and Processing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Dynamic Cronjobs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Understand Your Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tezcatl: A 2MB alternative to Puppeteer for scraping on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Elmo fire memes with DALL-E 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tezcatl: A 2MB alternative to Puppeteer for scraping on macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Reads My RSS Feed? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask a computer A toy powered by GPT-3 and reckless abandon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted npm install turboencabulator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code as a story · 1 points
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