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Soledad Penadés
Personal blog · soledadpenades.com · on HN as soleprogrammingweb
Soledad Penadés writes soledad penadés, a personal blog at soledadpenades.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Open source is super amazing (except for when it isn’t)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link her 2009 post on using a Mac mini as a headless machine. The other comments discuss Thunderbird, ARM cloud servers and GNU without judging her writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Open source is super amazing (except for when it isn’t)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-13
What Hacker News says?
> But there's also a problem: I now have Thunderbird exactly how I wanted it, but it took a few hours to set it up and it required some technical knowledge: calendar, tasks, Gmail like smart search, multi language corrections. For a normal user, that might be off-putting. However, I think Thunderbird is gaining momentum again Thunderbird's problem is and always has been a lack of resources. Mozilla infamously bungle…
Comment linking /posts/2015/how-to-keep-contributors-when-they-are-not-even-contributors-yet/
on “What’s New in Thunderbird 78”Submitted Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech as a story · 374 points
HN discussionRPi 3 with an overclock isn't as weak as the previous ones… and you can boot it over network or USB. Still, the lack of SATA and Gigabit Ethernet is disappointing. So I currently use a Mac mini '06 as my home server. Used to be my main desktop back in the day… I upgraded the CPU (Core Duo → Core 2 Duo), flashed the firmware from the '07 model (allows running OS X Lion, but idk if that did anything else), installed a…
Comment linking /2009/02/10/mac-mini-as-a-headless-server/
on “Scaleway ARMv8 Cloud Servers”Submitted Two weeks with Vim as a story · 50 points
HN discussionProbably this https://soledadpenades.com/posts/2009/mac-mini-as-a-headless... But it is a resistor.
Comment linking /posts/2009/mac-mini-as-a-headless-server/
on “Using an iPad as the main display for a Mac Mini”Submitted Using and abusing Renoise as a demosequencer as a story · 10 points
HN discussionEven GNU's philosophy has a few puzzle pieces missing from the box. - JordiGH's "Exercising software freedom on Firefox" < http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/exercising-software-fre... >. Jordi spends a lot of time dealing with the infuriating reality of what it takes to build Firefox. The punchline (not stated in the post) is that Firefox uses an Emacs-like architecture, so basically none of these frustrations or…
Comment linking /posts/2015/how-to-keep-contributors-when-they-are-not-even-contributors-yet/
on “Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)”Submitted Open source is super amazing (except for when it isn’t) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open source is super amazing (except for when it isn’t) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lightbox is ruining my user experience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dodging Garbage Fires as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dogetest.com as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-end mDNS: announcing and finding network services with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On "Learnable programming" by Bret Victor as a story · 1 points
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