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lmno.lol @lmno
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lmno.lol @lmno is a personal blog at lmno.lol about programming and productivity. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 99 times, most often “It's all up for grabs, compound with glue”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Wholesome blogs minus the yucky bits of the modern web
Most-linked posts?
- It's all up for grabs, compound with glue3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-14
- ChatGPT-shell goes multi-model2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-20
- Ready Player Mode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-03
- OCR Those Buffers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-18
What Hacker News says?
Not yet officially launched, but I’m working on a no-bloat, no-tracking, no-JS… blogging platform, powered by a drag/drop markdown file: https://lmno.lol Blogs can be read from just about any device (or your favourite terminal). My blog, as an example: https://lmno.lol/alvaro Shared more details at https://indieweb.social/@xenodium/112265481282475542 ps. If keen to join as an early adopter, email help at lmno.lol
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on “Engineering for Slow Internet”Submitted Ready Player Mode as a story · 74 points
HN discussionCommented earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40776881 , so this will be my last for the post… It’s just nice to see folks wanting minimalistic but functional features. I’m ticking quite a few of these on a service I’m working on. You can see my blog running on it https://lmno.lol/alvaro Not yet officially launched. Happy to share invites to use now (for early adopters).
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on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Emacs Bubble Mode as a story · 36 points
HN discussionIt's comforting to see blogging as a topic on HN front page, along with plenty of constructive comments. I'll take some of the ideas on board. I've been working on a blogging service myself (here's my blog on it https://lmno.lol/alvaro ), focusing on minimalism, hopefully enabling the content to shine on any kind of device (you can read from your favorite terminal too). You drag and drop your entire blog from a mark…
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on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted It's all up for grabs, compound with glue as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI'm grateful for sites like this and these days LLMs too. ffmpeg is awesome, but I can never rememeber the right incantation. The sites/tools get me the right ffmpeg answer, but I still needed to remember the answer next time (or look things up again). Now I save them as reusable commands: https://lmno.lol/alvaro/how-i-batch-apply-and-save-one-liner...
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on “FFmpeg by Example”Submitted Show HN: lmno.lol – Drag and drop blogging minus the yucky bits of modern web as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI still believe in blogging. For anyone keen on getting started or switch providers, I recenly launched a no-nonsense service: https://LMNO.lol . The experience feels more like taking notes than blogging (low friction). My blog is https://lmno.lol/alvaro (also at https://xenodium.com )
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on “Why blog if nobody reads it?”Submitted Hello Emacs.tv as a story · 6 points
HN discussionOn the blogging side, I’m doing my bit for the web and built a new service minus the yucky bits of modern web (tracking, ads, paywalls, bloat…) https://lmno.lol does rss too. Full content of course. For example, my blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro and https://lmno.lol/alvaro/feed
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on “I ditched the algorithm for RSS”Submitted Real Player Mode Now on Melpa as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I write the content on this website for people, not robots. I’m sharing my opinions and experiences so that you might identify with them and learn from them. I’m writing about things I care about because I like sharing and I like teaching. Hits home for me. I tried hard to free my blog ( https://xenodium.com ) of any of the yucky things I try avoid in the modern web (tracking, paywalls, ads, bloat, redundant js, e…
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on “This website is for humans”Submitted Blogging minus the yucky bits of the modern web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI just launched a drag and drop service myself https://lmno.lol . Use your favorite text editor to edit your Markdown blog file. No tracking, adverts, paywalls, or bloat. I'm also bringing a little nostalgia back with ASCII art headers (optional of course). Here's my blog on it: https://lmno.lol/alvaro Wrote a bit about how I got to build my own service https://lmno.lol/alvaro/blogging-minus-the-yucky-bits-of-mod...
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on “WordPress Is in Trouble”Submitted How I Smash Burgers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis looks great. For Emacs users, v29 introduced sqlite-mode. I've experimented with some convenience extensions which can be handy for quick sqlite views and edits https://lmno.lol/alvaro/sqlite-mode-goodies
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on “SQLiteStudio: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases”Submitted LLM Iterate and Insert as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile I haven't officially launched https://lmno.lol blogging platform and not exactly monospaced, it shares much of the site's simplicity. You can view my blog at https://lmno.lol/alvaro (powered by a single markdown file). You can already play with the platform without signing in, but if you're keen to start blogging today, ping help\at\lmno.lol and I'll share an invite code.
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on “The Monospace Web”Submitted ChatGPT-shell goes multi-model as a story · 3 points
HN discussionoooh, this is timely. I'm working on a blogging service where you can set ASCII art as its home page header at https://lmno.lol I was delited to find a figlet js port at https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js , which I use to generate default headers for new blogs. You can see it on my blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro or new ones like https://lmno.lol/ivyink and https://lmno.lol/stormsprite . Looking forward to playing wi…
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on “ASCII Silhouettify”Submitted The dired abstraction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you have stopped blogging, been meaning to get back on it, or simply want to start, but been put off by the popular platform options, I'm working on a blogging platform myself that sheds the crummy modern bits of the web: https://lmno.lol . Here's my own blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro (about 10 years worth of posts). You can read the blogs on your phone, your desktop, your terminal. No JS needed. Coincidentally the…
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on “Why I still blog after 15 years”Submitted It's all up for grabs, compound with glue as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> in a way that you're completely in control of, without bloat, without ads, without algorithms. If they don’t play nice, they often offer short digests in feeds, driving users to open their sites where you get ads, tracking, bloat, paywalls, and no longer in control… Thank you for advocating RSS. It’s the least we should strive for in our services. We can also strive for services themselves without tracking, ads, b…
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on “I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too”Submitted Ready Player Mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://LMNO.lol Drag and drop your markdown to the web and get a blog. Also because the web/blogs lost itself in tracking, bloat, paywalls... and I miss some of the quirkiness. My blog runs on it: https://xenodium.com
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)”Submitted A Tour of Ready Player Mode as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Meanwhile - Nothing changes, everything generally gets worse https://LMNO.lol is my grain of sand. I wasn't happy the state of blogging (tracking, bloat, ads, paywalls...), so I built https://LMNO.lol . It's offline first and you can browse blogs from anywhere (even terminal). Your blog is a single Markdown file. Drag and drop it to the browser and your entire blog is generated. Custom domains are welcome. My blog…
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on “Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come”Submitted Blogging minus the yucky bits of the modern web as a story · 2 points
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