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Pete LePage
Personal blog · petelepage.com/blogwebprogramming
Pete LePage's personal blog at petelepage.com covers web and programming. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Google I/O Device Lab”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Pete LePage's posts on running old Microsoft Virtual PC images (IE test VMs) and on setting up a device lab for testing. Neither commenter praises the writing itself.
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.
Scuba - Roatan (2025-10) By Pete LePage | On October 31, 2025 | In Scuba Spent some time in Roatan, diving with Reef
Most-linked posts?
- Google I/O Device Lab2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-14
What Hacker News says?
Those virtual images are for Microsoft Virtual PC, which only runs on Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Everything I can see on the Internet suggests that the files used to work with non-Microsoft virtualization software (like VMWare), but does not anymore. See http://petelepage.com/blog/2009/09/running-the-ie-vpcs-on-ot...
Comment linking /blog/2009/09/running-the-ie-vpcs-on-other-vpc-hosts/
on “Ask HN: Startup uses pirated/warez software, what should I do?”Submitted Home automation with Pi, Google Voice, and Harmony Hub as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsomething like this would be very nice : http://www.petelepage.com/blog/2014/07/devlab/ Your shelf might do the trick though. Do you want to make automated tests or just to have devices lying around for your devs ? If these devices will only be used for dev-testing, think about including chargers. Nothing is worse than having to wait half an hour that a device recharge in order to solve a critical bug. If you want t…
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/devlab/
on “How do you store all your testing devices?”Submitted Google I/O Device Lab as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Webapp codelab as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building A More App-y Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussion