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Kelson Vibber
Personal blog · hyperborea.orgprogrammingwriting
Kelson Vibber's personal blog at hyperborea.org covers programming and writing. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's software review of Ladybird's inclusivity record in threads about Ladybird, Cloudflare sponsorship and the Helium browser, and a humour page. Comments cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of a programmer and sci-fi/comics fan from Southern California: creative writing, photography, humor, and fan activities.
Most-linked posts?
- /reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-22
What Hacker News says?
Posted elsewhere in this thread, it appears that ladybird does not have a great record in this dept. https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity...
Comment linking /reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/
on “Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy”Submitted Using Unicode Half-Stars Symbols in Ratings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think the parent comment means that Ladybird is fighting to be an additional browser engine in the current ecosystem of “Chromium and a couple of tiny, unimportant competitors.” However, on the subject of the other meaning of “diversity,” and whether or not it is in the business models of either of these projects, I think we have pretty conclusive evidence that actually it is NOT a core value to either of them: Ci…
Comment linking /reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/
on “Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy”Submitted Finding Fediverse Feeds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI had to google the controversy, found one dedicated blog site page about it, read it thoroughly and think it is insane to call this dude controversial based on what I read on https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity... I'm tired of people who are doing such great work being labeled politically over things like pronoun preferences and somehow this is supposed to make us wish for the projects fail…
Comment linking /reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/
on “Helium Browser”https://www.hyperborea.org/humor/tweeze.phtml was done mostly by computer. It's a fun challenge to write your program to make these. To tie it back to the OP, you could "spell-correct" the source text into a sequence of words that come closest to reproducing the original sound (but with the source sequence blacklisted).
Comment linking /humor/tweeze.phtml
on “How to write a spelling corrector (2016)”This really doesn't seem like a good idea. If people like the idea of browser independence they just need to stop brigading Ladybird with frivolous nonsense[0]. [0] https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity
Comment linking /reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity
on “Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly”