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Maxime Vaillancourt
Personal blog · maximevaillancourt.com/blogprogrammingproductivity
Maxime Vaillancourt's personal blog at maximevaillancourt.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog for practical tech how-tos, such as making a Canon DSLR work as a webcam on Debian Linux. The linked guide is a hands-on setup walkthrough.
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.
Maxime Vaillancourt
What Hacker News says?
For those that want to make their canon work in linux, check this guide https://maximevaillancourt.com/blog/canon-dslr-webcam-debian...
Comment linking /blog/canon-dslr-webcam-debian-ubuntu
on “Webcams aren't good enough”Submitted Turning my smartphone into a boring productivity tool as a story · 119 points
HN discussionPretty cool to see renewed interest in personal wikis, personal websites, and digital gardens after all these years. I remember writing my first bare HTML website in the early 2000s using Microsoft Frontpage. How times have changed! As people grow curious to create their own digital garden a claim their own space on the Internet, I found that the main blocker was getting started. They have ideas, notes, and thoughts…
Comment linking /blog/setting-up-your-own-digital-garden-with-jekyll
on “Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet”Submitted Moving away from Google services, 8 years in as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Ruby apps, same code, but different output: what's going on? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why old ThinkPads are still terrific laptops in 2019 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically labeling GitHub notification emails with Gmail filters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On sleepiness, activation energy, and flow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring a grain dryer remotely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accelerating software onboarding with code walkthroughs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Write as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up your own digital garden with Jekyll, GitHub, and Netlify as a story · 1 points
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