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Leonardo Brito
Personal blog · lbrito1.github.io/blog · on HN as lbritoprogrammingsystemscareer
Leonardo Brito writes A Developer's Notebook, a personal blog at lbrito1.github.io about programming, systems and career. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Leonardo Brito's posts on not over-obsessing over DRY code and on replacing Google Analytics with a self-hosted analytics setup that runs on a phone.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-02-10
- I replaced Google Analytics with a web server running on my phone2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-07-06
What Hacker News says?
wrote mine with Ruby (nanoc, a library that generates static sites) https://lbrito1.github.io/ , which is just a landing page created to help with job searches -- links to CV, github and so on; and: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server as a story · 253 points
HN discussionI agree with the principle of this blogpost, though IMHO this was covered better and with better examples here: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2017/03/dont-obsess-over-code... I also think the title of "don't obsess" covers the intent better. In other words, it's perfectly OK to write DRY code, but don't obsess over making all code DRY all the time at the expense of readability.
Comment linking /blog/2017/03/dont-obsess-over-code-dry.html
on “DRY is an over-rated programming principle?”Submitted I replaced Google Analytics with a web server running on my phone as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTermux is such a great piece of software. I've been using it as my primary server[1] for half a year now with no issues and very minimal maintenance. That said, it always kinda felt like a kludge when compared to (ideally) using a full-blown Linux distro like PostmarketOS. [1] https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/replacing_google_analytics_android.html
on “Termux no longer updated on Google Play”Submitted Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server as a story · 4 points
HN discussionShameless plug: I wrote a log-based analytics software that you can self-host on an Android phone. https://github.com/lbrito1/android-analytics Blog post: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/replacing_google_analytics_android.html
on “Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?”Submitted Onsites Considered Harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAbsolutely. Have been writing on my blog ( https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/ ) for 8 years. >Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you? Yes but YMMV. I enjoy writing. I was the kid at school that teachers hated grading because I filled the full space for answers in exams. >Did it help to get noticed/ find jobs or other opportunities? Hard to prove if it made an objective difference in hiring, but in all jobs I…
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on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”Submitted Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks for that, will look at it! I actually moved away from DDNS after a while because I moved and my new ISP had CGNAT. I posted about it here https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/replacing_google_analytics_android.html
on “Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server”Submitted Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReally enjoyed reading the in depth blog post: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal... Learned about running webserver on android and goAccess
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/replacing_google_analytics_android.html
on “Show HN: I made a simple Google Analytics alternative that runs on my phone”Submitted Onsites Considered Harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are “digital nomad visas” a thing yet? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding Up an Endpoint with Graph Theory as a story · 1 points
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