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Mijndert Stuij
Personal blog · mijndertstuij.nlsystemsprogramming
Mijndert Stuij's personal blog at mijndertstuij.nl covers systems and programming. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “What I got wrong about fast terminals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on terminal speed, including a follow-up errata post by the author about what they got wrong about fast terminals. The only comment is a bare pointer to that follow-up.
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.
A lead platform engineer writing about cloud infrastructure, DevOps, running, and minimalism.
Most-linked posts?
- What I got wrong about fast terminals3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-08
- Reconsidering My Relationship with the Fediverse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-07
- Life is too short for a slow terminal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-06
- The algorithm isn't always to blame2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20
- I was wrong about game development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-06
What Hacker News says?
https://mijndertstuij.nl Created it from scratch using Jekyll.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Laptop as a story · 16 points
HN discussionFollow up / errata post written by the author today: https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/what-i-got-wrong-about-fast-t...
Comment linking /posts/what-i-got-wrong-about-fast-terminals/
on “Life is too short for a slow terminal”Submitted How I Fired myself: about loss, mistakes and getting your shit together as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted I was wrong about game development as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Garmin Needs to Do Better as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Love Shaving Yaks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quickly develop and test a static website with Mongoose as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reconsidering My Relationship with the Fediverse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Openbook has a good chance of making social networks relevant again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting A+ on SSLLabs with Nginx and StartSSL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reconsidering My Relationship with the Fediverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I was wrong about game development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cheap to Write, Expensive to Own as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life is too short for a slow terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life is too short for a slow terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The algorithm isn't always to blame as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The algorithm isn't always to blame as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating responsive images on a static Hugo website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Information Processing – Mijndert Stuij as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quickly switch accounts using aws-cli as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free: on open sourcing my online presence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 503 maintenance pages with Lighttpd and LUA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting your Jekyll website on GitHub pages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A not comprehensive Garmin Cirqa review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I got wrong about fast terminals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I got wrong about fast terminals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scale Kubernetes deployments to zero using KEDA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating from ingress-Nginx to Envoy Gateway as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing headline-only RSS feeds with RSS-fulltext as a story · 1 points
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