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Ralsina.Me
Personal blog · ralsina.me/weblogprogrammingsystems
Ralsina.Me is a personal blog at ralsina.me about programming and systems. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Programming Is Not a Goal”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link ralsina.me posts about the Nikola static site generator and its webapp plugin, a KCalc usability complaint that led to the SpeedCrunch calculator, and a paste-hosting post. The comments only cite these posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Programming Is Not a Goal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-25
What Hacker News says?
Fun fact about SpeedCrunch history, the software descends from an off-hand blog post by Roberto Alsina, a KDE developer, complaining about KCalc usability [1]. Back then developers were often just unthinkingly cloning 'skeuomorphic' interfaces like Apple used back then, designing user interfaces that resembled physical objects instead of taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by computers. His blog post elic…
Comment linking /weblog/posts/P247.html
on “SpeedCrunch”Submitted Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (2005) as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI use Nikola with the "webapp" plugin [1]. It's still too much for non-technical users, but with some polish you could probably get it to be usable by anyone. 1) http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/preview-of-nikola-webapp.html
Comment linking /weblog/posts/preview-of-nikola-webapp.html
on “Ask HN: Static site generator with web UI?”Submitted Create your own language in 87 lines of code as a story · 8 points
HN discussionReminded me of this: https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/locche-the-untouchable-paste...
Comment linking /weblog/posts/locche-the-untouchable-pastebin.html
on “Hosting files in url minifiers”Submitted How to make your shell dangerous using AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Is Not a Goal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Is Not a Goal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Is Not a Goal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Languages for Dummies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Desktop Setup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted So I Built a Laptop? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion