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Simone's Blog
Personal blog · system31.simone.computer/bloghardwareprogramming
Simone's Blog is a personal blog at system31.simone.computer about hardware and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as background on the recent comeback of web desktops, browser-based desktop environments. The commenter cites the post while discussing the OS.js project rather than judging the writing.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
I recently wrote a blog post [1] about the comeback in popularity of these web desktops, especially after seeing a lot of these being posted on HN recently. OS.js was one of the early projects I started tracking years ago, and it's really well designed and documented. The interface always reminded me of those mid 2000's distros with GNOME 2, which is a nice thing since most nostalgic web desktops tend to have Window…
Comment linking /blog/desktops-zip
on “Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager”Submitted Developing Game of Life on a TRS-80 in 2024 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating Joey's Gibson Virus on a Vintage PowerBook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking LEGO Minifigure Factory with Flipper Zero as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Desktops.zip: Some thoughts on websites that look like desktops as a story · 1 points
HN discussion