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Luke’s Wild Website
Personal blog · lkhrs.com/blogwebdesignproductivity
Luke’s Wild Website is a personal blog at lkhrs.com about web, design and productivity. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Measuring terminal latency”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Luke's blog as a source for terminal input latency measurements, especially his 2022 terminal-latency post. One commenter also lists the site as an example of simple, elegant personal blog design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Measuring terminal latency7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-01-30
- How to block domains from search results2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-05
What Hacker News says?
I've been into the "personal website" world as well recently, and one thing I've noticed is a lot of personal websites end up linking to each other, or have a "Blogroll" [0]. This pretty much acts as an aggregator to point you to other sites that might be similar to the author's. Personally, I've just been keeping a running list in my notes for cool personal sites I find / subscribing to the RSS feed if it has one,…
Comment linking /blogroll/
on “Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website”Submitted Fixing my monitor's power button as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSee e.g. https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/ On a slower machine, 100ms latency is achievable, which becomes perceptible (not yet annoying). Output speed can be visibility sluggish if you add too much highlighting and stuff. I haven't touched iTerm for several years; maybe the modern versions are intrinsically faster, and modern hardware is definitely much.faster, so this could have become impercept…
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
on “Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming”Submitted How to block domains from search results as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTasteful: https://colly.com/ Artsy: https://anhvn.com/ Simple yet elegant: https://www.lkhrs.com/ and https://arun.is/blog/ Maximalist: https://henry.codes/ and https://garden.bradwoods.io/ and https://blog.maximeheckel.com/ Old-school / indie web: https://ribo.zone/ Text mode / ASCII art: https://adelfaure.net/ Typography: http://davidcole.me/ and https://www.petemillspaugh.com/ I have more. You can keep rolling th…
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on “Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?”Submitted Text-scale should be the default as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBlock the domain? https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/04/block-domains-from-search...
Comment linking /blog/2022/04/block-domains-from-search/
on “Ask HN: How would you remove Reddit.com from all search results?”Submitted What would happen if I blocked big search? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA more recent test from last year still has not great latency numbers for Alacritty: https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
on “Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators”Submitted Preloading files to reduce download chains in the browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionperformance The latency of iTerm has traditionally been much worse than Terminal.app. It got a bit better with GPU rendering, but it still trails behind Terminal.app quite a bit. https://danluu.com/term-latency/ https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/ I tried iTerm for a while because Terminal.app does not support true color. But the difference in latency is definitely noticeable to me.
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
on “My ultimate shell setup with Fish shell and Tmux”Submitted Winget shipped without PowerShell support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionProbably not. There are terminals with surprisingly high latency, even on modern hardware. See here for examples of ~100 ms of local latency: https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
on “Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1”Submitted Measuring terminal latency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYour benchmark is more than 6 years old, on a 2014 Macbook, with a strange choice of terminals. LWN's article on the subject is almost as old, but with a better comparison: https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ (2018) For a recent take, though by one of the competitors, see https://tomscii.sig7.se/2021/01/Typing-latency-of-Zutty > TL;DR; terminal.app on macOS is typically the fastest. Even on macOS, that's probably not t…
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
on “Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator”Submitted Thoughts on Leaving Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat part of keyboard centricity is broken in a GUI NeoVim client? Also terminals vary significantly in input latency (though you might mean something else with "usage" latency), some higher than those of a GUI app https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/terminal-latency/
on “Application-Specific Terminals”
