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Rakhim's blog
Personal blog · rakhim.exotext.comprogrammingaiculture
Rakhim's blog is a personal blog at rakhim.exotext.com about programming, ai and culture. Since 2024, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Benjamin Button Reviews macOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for design essays, including a piece on whether UI should look "like Google" and a review of macOS Apple icons. The comments do not say much about 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.
Rakhim's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Benjamin Button Reviews macOS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-17
- Related UI elements should not appear unrelated3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-20
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-24
- But what if I want a faster horse?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-04
- I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-29
- Examples are the best documentation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-30
- Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-12
- How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-19
- They made computers behave like annoying salesmen2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-15
What Hacker News says?
>I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to. Would you consider participating in a private beta of https://exotext.com/ , a simple blogging platform I'm building? (example blog: https://rakhim.exotext.com/ ) If so, please send me an email: hello at rakhim.org
Comment linking /
on “How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare”Submitted But what if I want a faster horse? as a story · 1525 points
HN discussionRelated: I recently found a way to make Half Life 2 (purchased via Steam) run on arm-based Macs. It’s probably my favourite game of all time, and totally worth a bit of hassle. https://rakhim.exotext.com/how-to-play-half-life-2-on-mchip-...
Comment linking /how-to-play-half-life-2-on-mchip-macs
on “Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs”Submitted Examples are the best documentation as a story · 454 points
HN discussionI made it like that in the beginning (and wrote about it and other decisions in a blog post[1]), but felt it was too punishing. Maybe I could punish with 1/2 of the piece value. [1]. https://rakhim.exotext.com/knight-ride-a-game-about-rogue-ch...
Comment linking /knight-ride-a-game-about-rogue-chess-knight
on “Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight”Submitted They made computers behave like annoying salesmen as a story · 296 points
HN discussionWrote a blog post about making the game: https://rakhim.exotext.com/knight-ride-a-game-about-rogue-ch...
Comment linking /knight-ride-a-game-about-rogue-chess-knight
on “Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight”Submitted AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing as a story · 206 points
HN discussionA curious observation. I was opposed to this article based on the title. Esp when I clicked on it and then saw it was the same author as "But what if I really want a faster horse?" Because I assumed I knew what the argument was. I assumed this was another material ui doesn't look great -- while not appreciating the nuance of Google. Just as I assumed "what if I really want a faster horse" was actually about some ant…
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on “Don't make it "like Google"”Submitted How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect as a story · 206 points
HN discussionHomepage https://rakhim.org/ (with links to my books, talks, projects, and social media) Blog https://rakhim.exotext.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Benjamin Button Reviews macOS as a story · 140 points
HN discussionMy blog directory/search engine [1] runs on Cloudflare workers as well. I was able to get pretty good results, too. For example, the listing of 1200+ blogs [2], each with 5 latest posts, loads in ~500ms. A single post with a list of related posts, loads in ~200ms. Yeah, it's still a lot, but it includes all the normal web app logic like auth middlewares, loading user settings, and states; everything is rendered serv…
Comment linking /but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse
on “A super fast website using Cloudflare workers”Submitted Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction as a story · 116 points
HN discussionI watched this video today, and it was fun, but it made me feel a bit disconnected from the world of modern programming. I wrote about it [1], and wanted to post that link to HN, but then thought maybe it's better to post the original video instead. [1]. How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect. https://rakhim.exotext.com/web-developers-a-growing-disconne...
Comment linking /web-developers-a-growing-disconnect
on “Leet Heat: A Game Show for Developers”Submitted Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests as a story · 81 points
HN discussionThere's a way to compile HL2 on ARM Macs, I've written a guide here: https://rakhim.exotext.com/how-to-play-half-life-2-on-mchip-...
Comment linking /how-to-play-half-life-2-on-mchip-macs
on “Half-Life 2 in a Browser”Submitted Don't make it "like Google" as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSee also: https://rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-button-reviews-macos
Comment linking /benjamin-button-reviews-macos
on “If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design”Submitted I wish your bespoke React-Tailwind-etc. static site generator had RSS as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benjamin Button Reviews macOS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lesser-known science fiction movies as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted They made computers behave like annoying salesmen as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted But what if I want a faster horse? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lesser-known science fiction movies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your minimalistic app is great! Can you add these 38 features, though? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is not another abstraction because god plays dice as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finland is a high-context society that loves defaults as a story · 2 points
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