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Kai Hendry
Personal blog · dabase.com/blog · on HN as hendryprogrammingsystems
Kai Hendry's personal blog at dabase.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Kai Hendry's site, linked for a Hugo static site generator course covering templates, CSS and deployment, and for a post on grievances with Hiveage.
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.
Kai Hendry's tech blog and tips
Most-linked posts?
- /e/04066/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-28
What Hacker News says?
Currently the Broadcom GL driver and Webkit2 do not play well together. http://dabase.com/blog/Webkit_on_Rpi2/ I got burnt by this.
Comment linking /blog/Webkit_on_Rpi2/
on “Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick”Submitted 7 days to leave Hiveage as a story · 20 points
HN discussionYou can't block a HTTPS site based on path http://dabase.com/blog/Centralisation_censorship_side_effect...
Comment linking /blog/Centralisation_censorship_side_effect/
on “Russia bans Reddit”Submitted How to run Firefox in a Linux container as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI used to use a ffmpeg approach to make my screencasts [1], but now I use OBS. Great piece of software. I wrote some notes about it some time back http://dabase.com/blog/Screencasting_from_Archlinux_gotchas/ and I think they've addressed all my issues. I publish my screencasts upon http://www.youtube.com/kaihendry [1] https://github.com/kaihendry/recordmydesktop2.0
Comment linking /blog/Screencasting_from_Archlinux_gotchas/
on “Screencasting with free software”Submitted Experiencing CoreOS+Docker stable for Greptweet.com as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, have a good FAQ which becomes your canonical reference point. http://dabase.com/blog/How_to_create_a_FAQ_that_does_not_suc... I have a fairly complex Fastmail email setup in my organisation to share the support mail folder with my colleagues. Ultimately all people added to support can see all past "conversations" and join the conversation. Huge PITA to setup though. Still prefer it as it's not locked into the s…
Comment linking /blog/How_to_create_a_FAQ_that_does_not_suck/
on “Ask HN: How do you handle customer support on your site?”Submitted Makefile-based static site generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMade similar work here https://dabase.com/e/04066/
Comment linking /e/04066/
on “Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off”Submitted SLOC the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBut boot the customers when they try to give constructive feedback on what they are missing on their blog? That link http://dabase.com/blog/Hiveage_grievances/ is not bad publicity, the reaction to it is.
Comment linking /blog/Hiveage_grievances/
on “7 days to leave Hiveage”Submitted Depending on the Mobile Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs a parent, there is no way I'm aware of keeping an eye (remotely) on their Watch history with Youtube kids. https://dabase.com/blog/2023/youtube-kids/#watch-history The controls are broken.
Comment linking /blog/2023/youtube-kids/
on “The Case for Banning Children from Social Media”Repair costs > value of phone https://dabase.com/blog/2023/iphone-repair-uk/
Comment linking /blog/2023/iphone-repair-uk/
on “Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years”Hugo's documentation is rather awful hence explanations like https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo or https://dabase.com/e/04066/ I found this course to be a thorough explanation of the required templates, how to style etc. (where CSS and the whole frontend have stayed mysterious to me for years). It even covers deployment and SEO (namely metadata and such)!
Comment linking /e/04066/
on “Course for Hugo SSG Incl. CSS and HTML-Templating”