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Malachi Soord
Personal blog · malachisoord.com · on HN as Inversechiprogramminghardwareproductivity
Malachi Soord's personal blog at malachisoord.com covers programming, hardware and productivity. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter links this blog's Ubuntu setup guide for the Dell XPS 15 9550 as a companion to another guide, saying the setup works. The post covers installing Ubuntu on that laptop.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Location: Berlin, Germany ☆ Full Time Stack: Android/Java/SQLite/TFS ☆ PHP/mySQL/git ☆ ASP.NET/C#/MS-SQL ☆ JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3/RDFa Resume: http://malachisoord.com/static/doc/CV_Malachi_Soord.pdf Contact: me@malachisoord.com Recently moved to Germany from the UK and am looking to get involved in the tech scene in Berlin. Interested in joining a small/medium sized company involving something web/mobile related.
Comment linking /static/doc/CV_Malachi_Soord.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?”Submitted Home Assistant utility meter setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionXPS 15 9550 here. Got mine on eBay for ~$1k with no SSD. Mine has the i7-6700HQ, 4K IGZO touchscreen, bigger battery (which takes up the 2.5" SSD space, so M.2 SSD only which is fine by me), and GTX 960. Follow http://seb.mamessier.com/dell-xps-15-9550-ubuntu-16-04/ + http://malachisoord.com/2016/09/10/xps-15-9550-ubuntu-setup/ and it's OK. Graphics switching doesn't work flawlessly. Powertop requires some messing a…
Comment linking /2016/09/10/xps-15-9550-ubuntu-setup/
on “ThinkPad X1 Carbon”Submitted Washing Machine Cycle Notifications (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionESPHome is great! I haven't done much stuff with it aside a few PIR motion/temp/humidity sensors for the house. https://www.malachisoord.com/2019/12/05/esphome-based-pir-mo... Tasmota I use just like said for switches and for that it works very well too.
Comment linking /2019/12/05/esphome-based-pir-motion-sensor-setup/
on “Tasmota: Cloud-free open source smart home firmware for ESP8266 devices”Submitted Simple Home Assistant Balcony Setup as a story · 1 points
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