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Ken Van Hoeylandt
Personal blog · bytewelder.com/postshardwareprogrammingsystems
Ken Van Hoeylandt writes ByteWelder, a personal blog at bytewelder.com about hardware, programming and systems. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Google Analytics IP anonymization and a Surface Go Linux Mint setup tutorial, cited in discussions of privacy and Linux WiFi support. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
ByteWelder is an alias used by Ken Van Hoeylandt. It is used to share learnings, experiments and projects.
What Hacker News says?
The same goes for their analytics "IP anonymization": it's hardly anonymous. I wrote an article about it a while back: https://bytewelder.com/posts/2021/07/08/google-analytics-ip-...
Comment linking /posts/2021/07/08/google-analytics-ip-anonymization-is-a-joke.html
on “Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands”Submitted Google Analytics IP anonymization is a joke as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'd be interested in this as well, though I'm not getting my hopes up. For instance, this relatively recent tutorial[0], too, says you have to install a custom kernel to fix the WiFi on Linux Mint. :\ [0] https://bytewelder.com/posts/2019/08/13/surface-go-linux-min...
Comment linking /posts/2019/08/13/surface-go-linux-mint.html
on “Microsoft Surface Go 2 review”Submitted Developing Tactility: the second year recap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Handheld PC as a story · 1 points
HN discussion