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Mathew Sachin
Personal blog · mathewsachin.github.io/blogprogramming
Mathew Sachin's personal blog at mathewsachin.github.io covers programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's pages about Captura, an open-source screen recorder for Windows, and a post on a hack for the Chrome dinosaur game. The comments point to the tool and post without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /Captura/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-23
What Hacker News says?
If you're recording the full desktop, then use ShadowPlay if you have an nvidia card (it comes with the nvidia software and utilizes the native GPU encoding). Otherwise, use the Xbox Game Bar, which is installed by default in Windows 10. If you need to record a specific portion of the screen, I'd recommend the open source tool Captura: https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/ It's no longer maintained as of July 2020…
Comment linking /Captura/
on “Video uploads now available across GitHub”Submitted What happened to Captura? OSS maintainer burnout (2023) as a story · 82 points
HN discussionProbably because the site author is using Google Analytics and Google Ads: https://mathewsachin.github.io/privacy_policy/ I bet it has nothing to do with GitHub, they're just rendering whatever is being deployed.
Comment linking /privacy_policy/
on “What happened to Captura? OSS maintainer burnout (2023)”Submitted Dependency injection of extension functions in Kotlin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionConsider Captura: https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/ and if that doesn't work for you, you can always fork it. Warning: there are a lot of Captura clones in the Microsoft store, download it only from Github.
Comment linking /Captura/
on “Ask HN: Why isn't there a simple, seemless Windows screen recording app?”ok I was torn for about two minutes and then found this [1] and was almost dumbfounded that I cant just pull up a console in chrome on android I have to go through usb to a real computer. [1] https://mathewsachin.github.io/blog/2016/11/05/chrome-dino-h...
Comment linking /blog/2016/11/05/chrome-dino-hack.html
on “Ask HN: Anyone intentionally turn off WiFi to play the dinosaur game in Chrome?”