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Mike Kasberg
Personal blog · mikekasberg.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Mike Kasberg's personal blog at mikekasberg.com covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “How to Fix Firefox Crashes on Ubuntu 21.10”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mike Kasberg's posts on fixing Firefox crashes on Ubuntu, dual-booting Ubuntu, and fighting the IRS over a tax dispute. One commenter praises the article's suggestion to do your own taxes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a husband, I'm a father, and I'm Catholic. I'm an Ubuntu Linux user, and I'm a staff software engineer at Strava. I write about DIY tech projects, from 3D printing and electronics to home networking and Linux laptops.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Fix Firefox Crashes on Ubuntu 21.103 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-22
- How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-28
- Dell Latitudes are Great Laptops (and they run Ubuntu well)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-18
What Hacker News says?
https://www.mikekasberg.com A personal blog - mostly programming and Linux.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted How to Dual-Boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 with Encryption as a story · 144 points
HN discussionI started using embeddings to find similar posts on my blog about a year ago. The results were awesome: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2024/04/23/better-related-p... Such a simple tool to implement with so much power in certain situations!
Comment linking /blog/2024/04/23/better-related-posts-in-jekyll-using-ai.html
on “Embeddings are underrated (2024)”Submitted I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won as a story · 50 points
HN discussionYou should look into a Dell Latitude. Specifically, look for one with Intel Graphics (for better Linux compatibility and battery life). I'd personally go for a 74xx model. They work great with Linux, in my experience. They're also business-grade, so they have decent longevity and repair-ability, with easy to find parts. https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2021/08/12/dell-latitudes-a...
Comment linking /blog/2021/08/12/dell-latitudes-are-great-laptops.html
on “Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?”Submitted Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI've been using Jekyll for my blog for nearly 10 years now. I also recently wrote a little plugin that uses SQLite, though I'm using it in a minimal way as a vector database rather than storing content in it right now. https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2024/04/23/better-related-p...
Comment linking /blog/2024/04/23/better-related-posts-in-jekyll-using-ai.html
on “Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll”Submitted Dell Latitudes are Great Laptops (and they run Ubuntu well) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionVS Code takes an opinionated view of this with "dev containers". Other IDEs (including JetBrains) have support as well. It's probably worth looking into a little, whether you decide to use them or not, to understand why they made some of the trade-offs they chose. I wrote a little blog post as an intro a while back: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2021/11/06/what-are-dev-con...
Comment linking /blog/2021/11/06/what-are-dev-containers.html
on “Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?”Submitted How to Fix Firefox Crashes on Ubuntu 21.10 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: How to Fix Firefox Crashes on Ubuntu 21.10+ https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firef... > ..The snap version of Firefox currently suffers from several problems that can lead to a bad user experience, including crashes. Their recommendation is to backup everything (bookmarks, settings), remove the snap, and install via apt or self-contained zip.
Comment linking /blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firefox-crashes-on-ubuntu-21-10.html
on “Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu”Submitted My Dotfiles Story: A Journey to Chezmoi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have a 7th generation as well. I had an issue with screen flicker, but I sent it back and the fixed it promptly (for free) and its been fine since. Otherwise, its been very good. I used this guide to set up the dual boot with https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2020/04/08/dual-boot-ubuntu... , with some small changes because that is a dell machine. I have the UHD display and the type is a bit small, but the scaling w…
Comment linking /blog/2020/04/08/dual-boot-ubuntu-and-windows-with-encryption.html
on “Ask HN: Are new ThinkPads still worthy?”Submitted Catching Mew: A Playable Game Boy Quote as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTowards the end of this article, the author recommends and links to another article about doing your own taxes[1]. I think this is a good suggestion. I've been doing my own taxes for years. In my experience, it is about the same level of effort as using the tax software. Instead of typing your numbers into tax software, you type the same numbers directly into the IRS's forms[2] and maybe use a calculator a couple of…
Comment linking /blog/2024/03/15/i-did-my-own-taxes-by-hand-and-you-can-too.html
on “I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won”The way Snap updates packages caused some problems with Firefox on recent versions of Ubuntu - I wrote a blog about it: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firef... Perhaps this update mechanism was part of the solution to some of those problems...
Comment linking /blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firefox-crashes-on-ubuntu-21-10.html
on “Ubuntu's Snap performs application updates without user consent”That would do it, or do this: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firef...
Comment linking /blog/2022/03/21/how-to-fix-firefox-crashes-on-ubuntu-21-10.html
on “Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try Out Mozilla's .deb Package”https://www.mikekasberg.com Some programming stuff, some totally random stuff, and lately some 3D printing stuff! I think my most well-known post is a how-to for encrypted dual-boot in Ubuntu: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2020/04/08/dual-boot-ubuntu... More recently, I've gotten into some programmatic 3D printing stuff like this: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2023/04/27/3d-printing-the-...
Comment linking /blog/2023/04/27/3d-printing-the-strava-logo.html
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
