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karelvo
Personal blog · karelvo.com/blogprogrammingproductivity
karelvo is a personal blog at karelvo.com about programming and productivity. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Setting Up TT-RSS via Yunohost on a Linode VPS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for the post on self-hosting forms, which one commenter says inspired their self-hosted personal data pipeline built on n8n and NocoDB.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
karelvo's corner of the web
Most-linked posts?
- Setting Up TT-RSS via Yunohost on a Linode VPS2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-09
- Self-hosting forms, the sane way2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-27
What Hacker News says?
There is a format called todo.txt that works follows very readable syntax (like your own example) and has some minimal bells and whistles if you want it to: http://todotxt.org/ As an alternative: I started using org-mode 5 years ago and have never looked back. This is my workflow ( https://karelvo.com/blog/orgmode ) although I sync it via Git now, and have an iPhone where I use Plain Org ( https://xenodium.com/plain…
Comment linking /blog/orgmode
on “I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file”Submitted Self-hosting forms, the sane way as a story · 127 points
HN discussionIt was this article! Self-hosting forms, the sane way https://karelvo.com/blog/selfhosting-forms-the-sane-way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179398 N8n for open source workflow, https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n Nocodb as an open source airtable / spreadsheet, https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb Again, for a single use this feels overkill. But it's a set of tools that once deployed will allow for extremely rapid pe…
Comment linking /blog/selfhosting-forms-the-sane-way
on “Imagining a personal data pipeline”Submitted Setting Up TT-RSS via Yunohost on a Linode VPS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCool list, some reading material for tonight. This reminds me of a similar thing I did in 2021 which was collecting a tidbit of trivia knowledge every single day: https://www.karelvo.com/blog/2022-01-01-365-thing-i-learned-...
Comment linking /blog/2022-01-01-365-thing-i-learned-in-2021/
on “Things I Learnt in 2023”Submitted Using an unsupported HP printer on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI did a TIL every day in 2021: https://karelvo.com/blog/365-things-learned-2021
Comment linking /blog/365-things-learned-2021
on “New Microblog with TILs”Submitted My simple, effective org mode setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting Up TT-RSS via Yunohost on a Linode VPS – KarelVO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tiny Tiny RSS via Yunohost on a Linode VPS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple, effective org mode setup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I collect a piece of trivia every day in 2021 as a story · 1 points
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