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Open source software and nice hardware
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Open source software and nice hardware is a personal blog at box.matto.nl about programming and systems. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Emacs with Wanderlust and GMail”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Emacs with Wanderlust and GMail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-17
- OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R312 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-04
What Hacker News says?
Thanks, i was using this: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ in a similar fashion to described in here: http://box.matto.nl/dnsadblok.html but will look into this one as well.
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on “AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage”Submitted We Must Revive Gopherspace (2017) as a story · 230 points
HN discussionSome Unix nerd already did a md to groff translator written in AWK. https://box.matto.nl/convert-markdownish-to-pdf-with-groff-m...
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on “You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free”Submitted CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020) as a story · 94 points
HN discussiontotally unrelated to the topic but here I am following this blog now because of very much in common. That is, 1. i3, 2. emacs, 3. sync'ing git repos accross machines. https://box.matto.nl/sparkleshare-to-sync-org-files.html
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on “CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020)”Submitted Emacs with Wanderlust and GMail as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI agree with you, but re: templating: if you're using shell scripts, why not use m4 as well? Shell of course has templating -- but it's a little dangerous...: template=teapot size=short build=stout \ cat <<eof > teapot.conf I'm a $template - $size and $build. I live at $(hostname). eof [ed: m4 is a little like cpp (the c pre-prosessor) on steroids (or acid). To get a feel for how it relates to templating for config…
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on “Puppet 4 is now production-ready”Submitted Prosody XMPP server in the home lab as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Website is available without encryption, and yours should be too as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encrypted Git remotes with git-remote-gcrypt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create texinfo files with org-mode for your personal notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some notes on OpenBSD 7.2 on a ThinkPad X201 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs with Wanderlust and GMail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twentysix year old RedHat 5.2 on QEMU i386 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a virtual machine on OpenBSD vmm (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kindle Highlights to Personal Wiki with AWK as a story · 1 points
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