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Jon Eskin
Personal blog · jeskin.net/blog · on HN as jpe90programmingsystems
Jon Eskin's personal blog at jeskin.net covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Self Hosting Git Repositories with Stagit”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Self Hosting Git Repositories with Stagit2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
- Getting started with VR in C++ on Meta Quest2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-13
What Hacker News says?
I tried out self hosting on my $5/mo VPS and found it much easier than expected. https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/
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on “Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe”Submitted Show HN: Clp, a Faster Alternative to Bat as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recently learned lua and wrote an alternative to bat that outperforms it by an order of magnitude. I thought Rust was supposed to be fast! :) https://jeskin.net/blog/clp/ Love the language!
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on “A History of Lua (2001)”Submitted Getting started with VR in C++ on Meta Quest as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently learned more about Makefiles by creating one to help me distribute a recent hobby project, which uses Lua embedded in C. I wish I had seen this when I was working on it! I learned (stole) from the musl libc configure script and makefile instead. Makefiles aren't as easy to work with as alternatives in other language ecosystems, but I found they let me do a lot without the need for extra dependencies. It's…
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on “A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (2017)”Submitted Self Hosting Git Repositories with Stagit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionif anyone is interested, here's a blog post about using fzf's file preview feature to preview grep results: https://jeskin.net/blog/grep-fzf-clp/
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on “So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?”Submitted Tips to Get Started with Cosmopolitan Libc as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese are awesome hobby devices to hack on. I’m not very experienced with graphics programming but I had a ton of fun developing with the SDK, wrote a blog post on it recently if anyone is interested in learning more about it. https://jeskin.net/blog/meta-quest-sdk/
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on “Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3”Submitted Self Hosting Git Repositories with Stagit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWow! This is such a thorough post! I slapped together similar (but much less impressive) take on this theme very recently. I use VNC for remote access rather than SSH'ing into my home network directly. Do you opt to just forward a port on your router and send it to your pi's SSH port? I wasn't sure how risky that would be or what options exist for that. Also I noticed you mentioned a water sensor at the end, I did a…
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on “I made a home security system, powered by a Raspberry Pi 3”Submitted Getting Started with Cosmopolitan Libc as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou run a git server on a public facing machine: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco... I run mine on the linode hosting my blog. The web interface is generated by stagit. https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/
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on “Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab”Submitted CLI Workflow with Grep, Fzf, and Clp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf anyone is looking for projects/uses for raspberry pis, they are great for DIY home monitoring: https://jeskin.net/blog/raspberry-cam-home-monitoring/
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on “Reasons a Raspberry Pi Belongs in Your Network Lab”Submitted Picking a Good Side Project as a story · 1 points
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