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jasonwryan.com is a personal blog at jasonwryan.com about systems and programming. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Mutt and HTML email (2012)”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog's Linux posts on Syncthing file sync, blocking ads and trackers with Adblock and Ghostery, and configuring the Mutt email client with mailcap.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Around this time last year, I posted about setting up a udev rule to run a script when I plugged my USB drive containing all of my music into one of …
Most-linked posts?
- Mutt and HTML email (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-10
What Hacker News says?
I learned about Syncthing here[0]. The article mentions that there is no versioning at the moment. [0] http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2014/05/10/syncthing/
Comment linking /blog/2014/05/10/syncthing/
on “Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement”Submitted Trolling Arch Linux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf people prefer more extreme solutions: I eventually moved to Conkeror (think Firefox, but with Emacs bindings and Emacs-like extension via javascript; I know cue the egg throwing). I was looking at other browsers to replace Firefox, as I got sick of it, and I picked Conkeror. Conkeror has a neat little feature called content-policy. I can block kinds of crap per session or site (Flash, JS, Fonts, Object tags, Imag…
Comment linking /blog/2013/12/28/hostsblock/
on “Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?”Submitted Read The Fine Manual as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTo expound upon someguy2's recommendation below, I have since moved on my Arch Linux laptop after reading a dev's blog post[0] to using hostsblock to block a lot of known domains to redirect to localhost. That, in conjunction with dnsmasq and kwakd (a ~400 LOC web server in C that only returns <html></html>)[2] for all requests makes me worry a lot less. I also use disconnect.me (after discovering the motivation beh…
Comment linking /blog/2013/12/28/hostsblock/
on “Blocking Google and Facebook using Ad Block Plus and Ghostery”Submitted Misunderstanding ArchLinux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe documentation for mutt suggests using lynx with mailcap: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#mimesupport But using mailcap + some terminal browser should work in general. w3m, lynx, or browsh should work. For example: http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/05/12/mutt/ Even a normal browser will work: text/html; firefox -remote 'openURL(%s)'
Comment linking /blog/2012/05/12/mutt/
on “Mutt and Gmail”Submitted Mutt and HTML email (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimum Standards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Grub With Syslinux - jasonwryan.com as a story · 1 points
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