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Software Development by mm-dev on mm-dev
Personal blog · mm-dev.rocks/posts · on HN as LeratoAustiniprogrammingsystemsgames
Software Development by mm-dev on mm-dev is a personal blog at mm-dev.rocks about programming, systems and games. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Daily-driving Android as a dev environment”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-19, 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 its series on the author's working environment, which covers living in a small camping trailer and avoiding mains power. One thread discusses a MacBook with its screen removed.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Daily-driving Android as a dev environment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-02
What Hacker News says?
SEEKING WORK | Remote | UK Coder/artist. I'm looking for projects, retainers or put me on your contacts list to cover your overspill: * All kinds of web stuff * Flutter for multi-platform apps * Media processing + editing * Documentation --- Portfolio: https://mm-dev.rocks/portfolio CV: https://mm-dev.rocks/mm-dev-cv.pdf 3D pile of my art: https://mm-dev.rocks/jumble Blog: https://mm-dev.rocks Git repo: https://code…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)”Submitted Decapitating a MacBook (2025) as a story · 67 points
HN discussionTL;DR - Termux + Termux-X11 + proot-distro + BT keyboard + BT mouse Termux is as great terminal, AFAIK it can be run on any modern (not even that modern) Android. With that alone you can get most common Linux terminal packages, run vim (including LSPs), tmux, ranger, compile C/C++, Python, Go, Rust... Termux-X11 lets you run X11/GUI apps. It has settings to properly capture mouse (trackball in my case) and keyboard,…
Comment linking /posts/android-as-a-dev-environment/intro/
on “iPhone DevOps (2023)”Submitted RecurseCenter.return() as a story · 61 points
HN discussionI have to say I'm a bit perplexed as to why a person who is living in a small camping trailer would not want a normally functioning laptop with a screen. https://mm-dev.rocks/posts/my-working-environment/intro/ I could see something like a macbook laptop sans screen being useful if it was like, perma wired into the electronics enclosure in a cabinet on a boat and plugged into an existing monitor/keyboard/touchpad...…
Comment linking /posts/my-working-environment/intro/
on “Decapitating a MacBook (2025)”Submitted Daily-driving Android as a dev environment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://mm-dev.rocks/series/my-working-environment/ Lives in a caravan and avoids using mains power.
Comment linking /series/my-working-environment/
on “Decapitating a MacBook (2025)”Submitted Show HN: Jumble, a Lifetime of Art on the Scrapheap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Remote | UK I'm a coder and an artist, guaranteed* 49th percentile in both fields. For certain roles this absolutely makes me an acceptable choice. I live in a caravan, powered by the sun on a sheep farm in Wales. Consistently hitting 98% uptime for both power and connectivity --- the numbers don't lie. I'm looking for projects, retainers or put me on your contacts list to cover your overspill: * All…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)”Submitted Decapitating MacBook: An Odyssey as a story · 1 points
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