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Henri Bergius
Personal blog · bergie.iki.fi/blog · on HN as bergieprogrammingsystems
Henri Bergius's personal blog at bergie.iki.fi covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 199 times, most often “Working on an Android tablet: first six weeks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Working on an Android tablet: first six weeks3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-04-16
- Why did I reimplement Jekyll using NoFlo3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-12
- Working on an Android tablet, 2017 edition2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-02-10
- NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-08-02
- Hallo.js, a simple rich text editor for the web2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-12
- Why WordPress needs to get decoupled2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-22
- Building an Ingress table using flow-based programming2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-18
- NoFlo: two years of flow-based programming with JavaScript2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-05
- I changed my license2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-05
- NoFlo and GNOME2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-13
What Hacker News says?
Awesome! I think it would be great if editors could help users to not only format their contents, but also to write better. Another idea in sort of similar direction is doing automated link suggestions: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/automated-linking/
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on “Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear”Submitted I changed my license as a story · 153 points
HN discussionThis is pretty cool! I'm the developer of a semi-automatic electronic logbook system for sailboats: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/electronic-logbook/ Right now I'm using YAML for the file format, as I wanted something that would be reasonably readable for both humans and machines. Markwhen would also fit the bill nicely, so that's something to consider, at least as an export format. My entries have a lot of properties,…
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on “Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines”Submitted Build a CMS, no forms allowed as a story · 109 points
HN discussionhttps://bergie.iki.fi/ I've been running this on and off since 1997, and writing about anything that interests me. Mostl about various travels and open source projects I'm involved with. Lately a lot of data flow programming, sailing, and IoT (and in some cases all of those together). I've collected what I consider my best posts into https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/category/bestof/
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective as a story · 77 points
HN discussionhttps://bergie.iki.fi/ Hasn’t seen much love lately, but content stretches back to the 90s.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Composer: NPM-like package management for PHP as a story · 75 points
HN discussionBack in 2011 I built a JS-based thing for making essentially any website editable: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/introducing_the_midgard_create_us... This required you to add a bit of RDFa markup to identify the editable parts (including collections, so you could add a news item or whatever), and then had a Backbone.js plugin setup for implementing saving to your chosen CMS. This all could likely be done easier today.…
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on “The Static Site Paradox”Submitted The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora as a story · 67 points
HN discussionMy experience working on an Android tablet: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android/
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on “Nexus 9”Submitted Working on an Android tablet: first six weeks as a story · 44 points
HN discussionTermux is pretty awesome. I used it for most of my work when working on a Pixel C. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android-2017/
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on “How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security”Submitted Flow-Based Programming, a way for AI and humans to develop together as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThe major difference is that with Ubuntu, apps and the OS/desktop share the same release cycle. I hope that could be decoupled, making life easier for application authors: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/application_quality_assurance_in_l...
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on “Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion”Submitted Hallo.js, a simple rich text editor for the web as a story · 33 points
HN discussionnot entirely true. Gnome has a first class language - Vala [1] - that is for writing performant system level applications. And the community is quite active as well - https://github.com/trending?l=vala If you think of automation, there have been attempts at bringing flow based programming to the Gnome-JS engine (think of it as Quartz Composer integrated into the desktop) [3] - plus the fact that http://extensions.gn…
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on “JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS X Yosemite”Submitted Why did I reimplement Jekyll using NoFlo as a story · 28 points
HN discussionYep, and it is even very easy: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/openstreetmap-s_user-generated_dat...
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on “OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple”Submitted Silex: ExpressJS for PHP as a story · 19 points
HN discussionWe've done some attempts at connecting Kinect with more traditional UI paradigms, like drag-and-drop: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/qt-air-cursor/
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on “Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant”Submitted Decoupling content management with RDFa and Backbone.js as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI built a reasonably similar ranking system a few years ago, but also taking social media interaction (blog links, delicious bookmarks, etc) with the content items being ranked into account: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/calculating_news_item_relevance/ You can see it in action on maemo.org: http://maemo.org/news/ PHP sources: http://trac.midgard-project.org/browser/branches/ragnaroek/m...
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on “How Hacker News ranking algorithm works”Submitted Why you should use a content repository for your application as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAt the c-base hackerspace in Berlin we integrated OpenMCT with our MQTT/MsgFlo setup to visualize all kinds of stats. Here's a post on how to do it: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/nasa-openmct-iot-dashboard/
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on “Open Source Mission Control Software from NASA”Submitted Why the tablet form factor is winning as a story · 12 points
HN discussionQuick usage example: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/calculate_the_impact_of_your_posts...
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on “See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook”Submitted Building an Ingress table using flow-based programming as a story · 10 points
HN discussionNope, ASF actually provides and enforces a reasonable governance model for projects it adopts. I wrote something on why this is important: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/open_source-free_software-what_we_...
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on “Apache considered harmful”Submitted Six weeks of working on an Android tablet as a story · 7 points
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