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Knut Magnus Aasrud
Personal blog · kmaasrud.com/blogprogrammingproductivitywriting
Knut Magnus Aasrud writes kmaasrud, a personal blog at kmaasrud.com about programming, productivity and writing. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “OPML is underrated”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog in the OPML thread, where the author's blogroll is published as an OPML file. The comments only test whether that blogroll.xml file loads in a new browser tab, so they don't judge 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.
The personal website of Knut Magnus Aasrud
Most-linked posts?
- /blogroll.xml4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-10
- OPML is underrated2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
- A Love Letter to Make2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-19
- Tracking Finances in TOML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-13
What Hacker News says?
> Try opening https://kmaasrud.com/blogroll.xml in a new tab (Ctrl+click or whatever), and observe the correct document title Loads absolutely fine for me on Firefox Nightly and on Firefox 122.0.1 stable on Linux.
Comment linking /blogroll.xml
on “OPML is underrated”Submitted OPML is underrated as a story · 204 points
HN discussion> Try opening https://kmaasrud.com/blogroll.xml in a new tab (Ctrl+click or whatever) I can't reproduce your issue (on Firefox 115.7.0esr (64-bit) from Debian). I open it in a new tab with middle click and it loads fine immediately.
Comment linking /blogroll.xml
on “OPML is underrated”Submitted Optimizing the hell out of my website as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> Try opening https://kmaasrud.com/blogroll.xml in a new tab (Ctrl+click or whatever), and observe the correct document title, but how the actual document area remains blank and the status bar says it’s still “Transferring data from kmaasrud.com…”. It worked for me: https://imgur.com/a/Qccw9kT
Comment linking /blogroll.xml
on “OPML is underrated”Submitted AI vs. an Extra Minute in the Shower as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWhen it talks about XSL stylesheets, which in theory you can use to have all your documents be XML and transformed into HTML, it’s worth noting that this is a part of browsers that’s been neglected for over a decade, with the minimum of maintenance to keep it still roughly working, and it shows. The failure modes are bad, and a lot of it is very difficult to debug. It’s like opening a portal to how you’d develop pag…
Comment linking /blogroll.xml
on “OPML is underrated”Submitted Tracking Finances in TOML as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OPML Is Underrated as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Love Letter to Make as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Track Your Finances in TOML as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Love Letter to Make as a story · 1 points
HN discussion