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kimmo.blog
Personal blog · kimmo.blog/postsprogrammingweb
kimmo.blog is a personal blog at kimmo.blog about programming and web. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Building an e-ink weather display for our home”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link kimmo.blog for its DIY build write-ups, such as a multi-part series on making a wiki with a static site generator and an e-ink weather display. Commenters cite these posts as examples.
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.
Blog about web-focused software development with a hint of business, design, and tiny perfect details. I’m Kimmo and I’ve been in the industry for nearly ten years: consulting enterprises, doing product development in different startups, and managing a webshop I co-founded.
Most-linked posts?
- Building an e-ink weather display for our home3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-13
What Hacker News says?
I spent 2 weeks trying to do this recently and got decently far. I learned there is an ungodly amount of yak shaving that goes into this process and that most SSG maintainers will have done it better. I went with Astro in the end, but I loved reading this series. https://kimmo.blog/posts/2-diy-gatsby-part-i/
Comment linking /posts/2-diy-gatsby-part-i/
on “Repurposing Hugo as a wiki”Submitted Building an e-ink weather display for our home as a story · 519 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of a blog post [1] that was recently posted to HN [2]: > Fortunately, Helsinki has an amazing library (more like a library, hacker space, gaming cafe, and a public hangout place combined) where I could go and desolder the header for free. [1]: https://kimmo.blog/posts/7-building-eink-weather-display-for... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33583326
Comment linking /posts/7-building-eink-weather-display-for-our-home/
on “Converting a WW2-Era Landing Gear and Flaps Indicator into a USB Peripheral”Submitted Building an e-ink weather display for our home as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted AST-based refactoring with ts-morph as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced TypeScript: The ultimate Tailwind typings as a story · 1 points
HN discussion