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Hari Rana
Personal blog · theevilskeleton.gitlab.iosystemsprogrammingculture
Hari Rana writes TheEvilSkeleton, a personal blog at theevilskeleton.gitlab.io about systems, programming and culture. Since 2021, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future””. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hari Rana's posts on Flatpak and Flathub permissions, his response to criticism of Flatpak, and GNOME design disputes. Comments cite them as references and as rebuttals to Flatkill.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to my personal website! My name is Hari Rana (pronounced as Harry). I’m a 24-year-old transgender developer and content writer from Montréal, Canada, and use any/all pronouns. I’m known as TheEvilSkeleton online, but you can call me Skelly, Tessy, or Tesk for short.
Most-linked posts?
- Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-16
- /2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-10
- How to Propose Features to GNOME2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-25
- Libadwaita: Fixing Usability Problems on the Linux Desktop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-29
- Traditional packaging is not suitable for modern applications?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-31
- On the Gnome Project and “My Way or the Highway”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
- Opt-In Telemetry and Asking Users for Feedback May Not Work in Practice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-16
What Hacker News says?
> See: https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2021/02/11/response-to-fla ... Everything in that reference basically says "yep the criticism is valid" and in a few cases the author expands on that with "but it's ok because..." and then lists various reasons why it's fine that it's still a problem but that's it's being worked on. They also had to correct a good chunk of just outright incorrect information they were supplyi…
Comment linking /2021/02/11/response-to-fla
on “Elementary OS 6 Odin”Submitted A letter to Microsoft for not attributing authors of the Edge Flatpak app as a story · 128 points
HN discussionSee: https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2021/02/11/response-to-fla... There's also Flatseal ( https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal ) as a user-friendly way of managing permissions for flatpak apps. This version of elementary OS comes with its own permission manager, but with my limited experience with both, it seems like it allows tweaking less permissions than Flatseal.
Comment linking /2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org.html
on “Elementary OS 6 Odin”Submitted The Fedora Project Remains Community Driven as a story · 86 points
HN discussion> There is one main reason I can think of. GNOME is the most used desktop environment, therefore it is the most susceptible to gain demands and pressure from users and companies. Being the biggest isn't cause enough for this perception. GNOME, in the past decade, put itself in a remarkable position of prioritizing a perpetual-neophyte persona, who did not & didn't want to understand computers, and rebuilt the produc…
Comment linking /2022/07/28/libadwaita-fixing-usability-problems-on-the-linux-desktop.html
on “On the Gnome Project and “My Way or the Highway””Submitted Traditional packaging is not suitable for modern applications? as a story · 59 points
HN discussionNot if those "improvements" go against the desired grain by gnome/etc maintainers. If I'm not misremembering, the gnome team is especially notorious for being closed to changes that go against their desired design goals. Trying to get changes upstream like what the parent was suggesting would be somewhere between arduous and impossible, let alone being a pain to implement. Edit: case in point: https://theevilskeleto…
Comment linking /2023/01/05/on-the-gnome-project-and-my-way-or-the-highway.html
on “Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users”Submitted A Letter to D1sc0rd for Not Supporting the Linux Desktop as a story · 43 points
HN discussionFlatkill is full of misinformation or no longer true information. There're many posts debunking most of their points [1]. Some parts were true a few years ago but aren"t anymore. For example if VSCode wouldn't have direct access to the file system, it would be unuseable since it doesn't support portals to ask the user to grant it access to specific folders (by selecting them through the file picker). In the process…
Comment linking /2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org.html
on “Flathub – The Linux App Store”Submitted Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future” as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Gnome Project and “My Way or the Highway” as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of Flatpak’s Permission Models as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misconceptions About Immutable Distributions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems with Not Raising Awareness and Protecting Marginalized Groups in FOSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Not to Recommend to Flatpak Users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Traditional Packaging Is Not Suitable for Modern Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Libadwaita: Fixing Usability Problems on the Linux Desktop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misconceptions About Immutable Distributions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to “Flatpak Is Not the Future” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opt-In Telemetry and Asking Users for Feedback May Not Work in Practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opt-In Telemetry and Asking Users for Feedback May Not Work in Practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Propose Features to GNOME as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is GNOME's Philosophy? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Propose Features to GNOME as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Fedora Linux Could Improve as a story · 1 points
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