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RGBCube
Personal blog · rgbcu.be/blog · on HN as RGBCubeprogrammingsystems
RGBCube is a personal blog at rgbcu.be about programming and systems. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blog post describing htmnix, an HTML generator that hijacks Nix's search-path syntax to create tags. Only one comment mentions it, as a bare link with a 'more cursed' aside.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The home directory and journal of RGBCube and his work.
Most-linked posts?
- .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-30
- Cosmic Drift2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-02
What Hacker News says?
Here's mine: https://rgbcu.be/404
Comment linking /404
on “Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?”Submitted # [derive(Clone)] Is Broken as a story · 128 points
HN discussionThere's a more cursed one here: https://rgbcu.be/blog/htmnix . It hijacks the Nix search paths syntax (e.g. import <path> {}) to create html tags.
Comment linking /blog/htmnix
on “Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix”Submitted 3-JSON as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted .gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Say No to Gnulib as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swap the ı and I key on your keyboard for faster modal editing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSDEM 2026 Schedule Chart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disable macOS doodoo garbage shinies with Nix Darwin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NgiNix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why more /sys/class/hwmon/*/temp*_label than CPU cores? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tool to transcode videos in nothing but a browser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cosmic Drift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix Koans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSDEM 2012 Schedule Chart as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cosmic Drift as a story · 1 points
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