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Nick Barrett
Personal blog · pointlessramblings.com/posts · on HN as Fizzadarprogrammingaiculture
Nick Barrett writes Pointless Ramblings, a personal blog at pointlessramblings.com about programming, ai and culture. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Pngquant vs pngcrush vs optipng vs pngnq”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, 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 Nick Barrett's posts for PNG optimisation benchmarks, such as a comparison of pngquant and pngcrush. One commenter cited a benchmark post as a useful reference.
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.
The pointless ramblings of Nick Barrett, a (mostly web) hacker.
Most-linked posts?
- Pngquant vs pngcrush vs optipng vs pngnq2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-17
What Hacker News says?
About the same. But, I found this little benchmark: [0] [0] http://pointlessramblings.com/posts/pngquant_vs_pngcrush_vs_...
Comment linking /posts/pngquant_vs_pngcrush_vs_optipng_vs_pngnq/
on “IBM Type”Submitted Why Always Docker? as a story · 234 points
HN discussionI've toyed around with this idea before[1], and am v.excited to see Multi.app as a packaged up/refined version, awesome stuff. [1] - https://pointlessramblings.com/posts/why-always-electron/
Comment linking /posts/why-always-electron/
on “Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources”Submitted MailChimp can’t process UTF-8 characters in email address prefixes as a story · 47 points
HN discussionhttp://pointlessramblings.com (though ramblings are rare these days!)
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