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Kevin F.
Personal blog · kevinfiol.com/blog · on HN as kevinfiolprogrammingweb
Kevin F. writes kevin f., a personal blog at kevinfiol.com about programming and web. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Simple State Management in Mithril.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads on the Mithril.js UI library, including a post on simple state management in Mithril using plain objects. The comments cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
kevin f.'s personal site
Most-linked posts?
- Simple State Management in Mithril.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-22
What Hacker News says?
I gave up on the YouTube UI a while ago and now rely on a script that runs every hour to generate an HTML page of my subscriptions (via RSS feeds): https://kevinfiol.com/youtube/
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on “Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse”Submitted Simple State Management in Mithril.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWoohoo, I love RSS. I feel this is a good a time as any to share Bubo RSS [0] by George Mandis, as well as my personal fork [1]. In essence, all it really is is a build script that reads your RSS feeds from a JSON file, and builds a static site as 1 HTML file and 1 CSS file. You can then run the script at whatever interval you want (basically however often you want to update your "feed"). I do this using Github Acti…
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on “RSS is still pretty great”Submitted A Tour of BeanCMS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, I noticed that similarity too a bit -- from the use of a "HyperScript"-like approach (although Mithril can be used with JSX too). https://mithril.js.org/hyperscript.html Aberdeen is innovative in that it's great to be able to avoid the VDOM in a technical sense. For fun, years ago, I messed around with a different technical approach of just rendering HTML from code directly (similar to Aberdeen to that extent),…
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on “Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs”I wrote a brief blog post[1] about vanilla state management in Mithril. Since Mithril triggers redraws on event handler calls, as another user said, you can just use POJOs very easily. [1] https://kevinfiol.com/blog/simple-state-management-in-mithri...
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on “Alternative lightweight UI library to modern day frameworks”> But.. reducing mindless scrolling while still giving me a way to follow content I care about seems good. My solution [1] to this was to create a static site that is built by a Github Actions workflow that runs every hour. The script just pulls RSS feeds I have listed in a .js file, and uses that to build the site [2]. The result is I'm more deliberate in what videos I watch, and I discover new creators organically…
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on “My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024”I use https://kevinfiol.com/reader/#dailies It's a personal fork of Bubo Reader by George Mandis. It's essentially just a Node.js script that fetches the latest stories from some RSS feeds I have stored in JSON, and then deploys a static site to Github Pages as a single HTML file. I use Github Actions to have it automatically run every 2 hours. Bubo Reader: https://github.com/georgemandis/bubo-rss My fork: https://g…
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on “Ask HN: What are you using for a RSS Reader?”I do love me some RSS. I started using RSS seriously 2 years ago, and last year, I forked Bubo RSS[1] to have my own RSS reader[2]. It's just a static site that is built every hour using Github Actions (although you can easily turn this into a cron job on your Raspberry Pi or whatever). I liked the result so much, I ended up doing something similar using RSS feeds to a build page with all my of Youtube subscriptions…
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on “It's Time for an RSS Revival”Hey all, I wanted to share this solution to a minimalist RSS Feed Reader by George Mandis, who wrote a great blog post about his approach here: https://george.mand.is/2019/11/introducing-bubo-rss-an-absur... Essentially, the reader is nothing but a build script that is routinely run to build a static web page that can then be published to Netlify/Vercel/Github pages/etc. Anyway, I was using Inoreader for about a yea…
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on “Bubo Reader: An irrationally minimalist RSS feed reader”