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oxblog
Personal blog · blog.oxplot.com · on HN as oxplotprogrammingother
oxblog is a personal blog at blog.oxplot.com about programming. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “Powering Starlink on the go with Tesla Model 3”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's parable "I saw what he meant" about the Python and Scala paradox, and its USB Power Delivery article for hobby projects. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Powering Starlink on the go with Tesla Model 32 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-12-04
What Hacker News says?
Wrote a little post some time ago on how to set it up on linux and use it on android. Super simple. https://blog.oxplot.com/wireguard-vpn-on-android/
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on “WireGuard is now in Linus' tree”Submitted Do not ask me personal details when calling me as a story · 127 points
HN discussionWrote about this years ago: https://blog.oxplot.com/dont-ask-for-personal-details/
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on “I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced”Submitted Show HN: USB PD Stand-Alone Sink Controller as a story · 124 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.oxplot.com Statically generated by my own static site generator. Hosted on github pages.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Creativity requires isolation as a story · 89 points
HN discussionVery interesting aspect of color management which I never paid attention to. I wrote a simple primer on color profiles [1] a while back which makes mention of state of custom color profiles on the web. I do wonder what result you'd get if you blended images with different color profiles on a web page as browsers can view non sRGB based image content. [1]: https://blog.oxplot.com/understanding-color-management/
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on “Web color is still broken”Submitted A non-trivial website that has no back end as a story · 44 points
HN discussionYou can easily use an inverter to go from 12v to 110V/240V and just use the stock adapter. Alternatively, you can get your hands dirty and do what I did [1]. However, I'm fairly certain that the non-maritime accounts won't be able to use the service on water (most likely geofenced) so that Starlink can sell their maritime version. [1]: https://blog.oxplot.com/powering-starlink-on-the-go-with-tes... EDIT: looks like…
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on “Starlink Maritime”Submitted No Apple Pay, No Sale as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI wrote about non secure contact pages of various banks in Australia back in 2014 [1] and sent them all private messages. Didn't hear back from a single one saying they were working on it. Haven't checked lately to see how or if they changed. [1]: https://blog.oxplot.com/non-secure-contact-page/
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on “The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security”Submitted How many lives have Musk's companies saved? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNice! I took Starlink with me on few road trips so far with my Model 3 and rigged it up to work off my car's battery. I did have to change my service address prior to arriving at new locations but it worked fine nonetheless. With the new roaming option, that's even easier now. I wrote about it on my blog for those interested: https://blog.oxplot.com/powering-starlink-on-the-go-with-tes...
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on “Starlink for RVs”Submitted No, your car does not drive itself as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote about something similar in the past: https://blog.oxplot.com/transient-ideas-and-learning/
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on “The more you learn, the faster you can learn”Submitted Gracefully Degrading Home Automation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAwesome. I've already started doing my own move to all things USB-C by making a custom made board [1] (which is also for sale [2]). I have so far converted 10 devices at home and gotten rid of their bulky bricks. [1]: https://blog.oxplot.com/usb-pd-standalone-sink-controller/ [2]: https://www.tindie.com/products/oxplot/stusb4500-compact-bre...
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on “EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones”Submitted WireGuard VPN on Android as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> What people have been asking for is an RV/camping/sailing Starlink they can use moving, and that product has yet to materialize. What people? You? Most people want usable Internet at home. Also, you can use a Starlink on the move just fine, just like I did. Keep changing your service location before you arrive. Takes a second, there are no limits (that I have found). https://blog.oxplot.com/powering-starlink-on-th…
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on “Starlink Premium”Submitted Powering Starlink on the go with Tesla Model 3 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionoooo, neat! — reminds me of some similar work I did building a search engine which went a step further and ran on S3. https://blog.oxplot.com/the-art-of-barebackness/
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on “Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie search engine”Submitted Mail Exchanger (MX) Providers Market Share as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI strongly agree with this point and wrote something about it a while back http://blog.oxplot.com/transient-ideas-and-learning/
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on “Throwing in the towel on becomming a programmer”Submitted I want a domain for my IP NOW! as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is an old parable about that: https://blog.oxplot.com/i-saw-what-he-meant/
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on “The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009)”Submitted Be a show off as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've been blogging since 2008 [1]. I think blogs are the least 3rd party reliant outlets for personal/pro content. As long as you can keep your domain, you have control over how, where and when your content is accessible. You control your URLs, whether you want ads or not, layout, etc. Simple web pages (as opposed to walled gardens of social networks) are search engines' best friends. As for mine, I actually wrote a…
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on “Ask HN: Why don't you blog?”Submitted A folding stepladder from fence timber as a story · 2 points
HN discussionArticle author here — just to clarify a couple of points. Firstly, it appears a few people have not actually went through and read what I wrote and suggested, well pretty much the same thing I suggested on the article! If you can get away with 5V, I link to 6p connectors that are indeed very easy to use, and even provided links to my own projects [1] using them! Please, have a read of the article, maybe there is som…
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on “USB Power Delivery for Hobby Projects”Submitted Show HN: A Control Panel for Electronics Prototypes as a story · 2 points
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