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Nathan Contino
Personal blog · lambdalatitudinarians.org/techblogprogramminghardwareculture
Nathan Contino writes λ Latitudinarians, a personal blog at lambdalatitudinarians.org about programming, hardware and culture. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Day Google Killed the Pixel 4a”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-08, 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 for a summary of the Google Pixel 4a firmware problem, where old firmware was removed and users were left with a buggy battery update.
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.
Nathan Contino's personal website and blog, Lambda Latitudinarians.
Most-linked posts?
- The Day Google Killed the Pixel 4a2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-09
What Hacker News says?
https://www.lambdalatitudinarians.org/ Simple, but I like the fact that no other website looks quite the same. I’d really like to implement optimized images for the blog at some point, maybe some lightboxes too, but for now this works great for me. And no JS, the best kind of JS.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The Day Google Killed the Pixel 4a as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere's been a lot of activity on Reddit and Android tech news websites. /r/Pixel4a has been absolutely busy with activity lately, lots of people asking for help. Decent summary post here: https://www.lambdalatitudinarians.org/techblog/2025/01/09/th...
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on “Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update”Submitted Post-Social Social Media as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLocation: New Hampshire, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: within New England, potentially Technologies: Kotlin, Java, C++, Python, Android, Sphinx, Docusaurus, Jekyll, docs-as-code Résumé/CV: https://www.lambdalatitudinarians.org/_pages/resume.html Email: ncontino [at] lambdalatitudinarians.org Technical writing (with developer skills) Passionate about writing great documentation for developers. I especially enj…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)”Submitted The macOS Quarantine Bit Error Message Is Bad as a story · 3 points
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