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Tech-Tutorials, Howtos and buying advice
Personal blog · pilabor.com/blog · on HN as sandreasprogrammingsystems
Tech-Tutorials, Howtos and buying advice is a personal blog at pilabor.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 97 times, most often “Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its audio CD ripping hardware drive accuracy test results and recommendations, and for posts on CSS tips and AVIF images.
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.
Andreas' personal blog and place for technical notes
Most-linked posts?
- Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing3 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2022-11-07
- HTML / CSS tricks, you might not know2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-25
- Remote desktop with xrdp and Kubuntu 20.042 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-31
What Hacker News says?
I love to see that the effort of preparing a microcourse is publicly available. And also the fact, that you don't "promote" a single static site generator, but also wrap this into a HTML course. I once did a kind of "tutorial" for hugo[1], because I think it's documentation is hard to follow for beginners, but I should have thought to give some details about the "from scratch" technologies... Great work, thanks. [1]…
Comment linking /blog/2021/05/building-a-blog-with-hugo/
on “How to build a personal webpage from scratch”Submitted Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing as a story · 208 points
HN discussionHere are some things I found helpful using Windows at work (at home I use Fedora): Debloat / Software Management: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil Command line software management (Scoop): https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/12/automate-windows-app-setup-... Comparison (Scoop/Chocolatey/Win-Get): https://daftdev.blog/2024/04/01/chocolatey-vs-scoop-vs-winge... I would also recommend starship ( https://starship.rs/…
Comment linking /blog/2021/12/automate-windows-app-setup-with-scoop/
on “My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore”Submitted Show HN: Labelmaker – Generate PDF from HTML Templates with Scripting as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere is mine: https://pilabor.com/ And here is how I built it with hugo: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/05/building-a-blog-with-hugo/
Comment linking /blog/2021/05/building-a-blog-with-hugo/
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The one and only last USB boot stick as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI think the complexity of your infrastructure is not helpful - so I would start in reducing it. I personally use one single server (Fujitsu D3417-B, Xeon 1225v5, 64GB ECC and WD SN850x 2TB NVMe) with Proxmox and an OpenWRT Router (Banana Pi BPI-R3). The Proxmox draws ~12W and the OpenWRT around 4.5W in Idle and with NodeJS I can run MeshCommander on OpenWRT for remote administration. Since I use ZFS (with native enc…
Comment linking /series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-via-zfs-snapshot/
on “Home Lab Beginners guide”Submitted Access and Recover files from an iPhone on Linux as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is awesome, but a little JavaScript extension here and there is improving the user experience A LOT! If the website is growing, a site search is something I would personally recommend to have. Still static though. I built my blog with hugo (static site generator) and it is hardly noticable, that it is completely static. See https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/05/building-a-blog-with-hugo/ for details.
Comment linking /blog/2021/05/building-a-blog-with-hugo/
on “Entire website in a single HTML file”Submitted Show HN: My personal shell scripting cheatsheet (WIP) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are several projects here in germany doing similar things. There is https://tonies.com , which is cloud based and pretty expensive, but hackable ( https://github.com/toniebox-reverse-engineering/teddycloud ). Then there is the RFID Jukebox: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID And Tonuino: https://github.com/tonuino/TonUINO-TNG I built ours with the RFID Jukebox and wrote a little tool called labelmake…
Comment linking /projects/labelmaker/
on “I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery”Submitted Proxmox: Restore Virtual Machines via ZFS Snapshots as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy devtools with svelte and webasm: https://pilabor.com/dev/#/ I use it to generate passwords, hashes, colors and base64 encodings :-) I plan to add more stuff in the future...
Comment linking /dev/
on “Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?”Submitted Show HN: Full client side WASM hash generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHmm the link has changed, here's the new one if anyone else is looking for it: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/html-and-css-tricks/
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/html-and-css-tricks/
on “CSS Tips”Submitted What is the difference: terminal / console / shell? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI miss the push-button and border-triangle trick;) https://pilabor.com/blog/tricks-you-might-not-know/html-and-...
Comment linking /blog/tricks-you-might-not-know/html-and-css-tricks/
on “CSS Tips”Submitted Show HN: My Markdown cheatsheet (with tricks you might not know) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNice, thank you for the post. Maybe you could think of integrating other aspects of meeting etiquette? I once wrote an article about this[1] and from time to time, I read it again to remember the details. [1]: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/tips-and-tricks-for-meeting...
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/tips-and-tricks-for-meetings/
on “Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings”Submitted Svelte SPA with TypeScript, Routes and SCSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInstead of creating aliases for .., I use this: function ..() { for i in $(seq 1 $1); do cd ..; done } which enables .. # up 1 dir .. 2 # up 2 dirs .. 42 # up 42 dirs Here are some more: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/unix-shell-tricks/
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/unix-shell-tricks/
on “Command line tools for productive programmers”Submitted Boot from hardware USB devices in Virtual Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI created m4b-tool[1] (audiobooks), labelmaker[2] (html/twig to pdf) and graft[3] (file transfer) for my personal use :-) [1] https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool/ [2] https://pilabor.com/projects/labelmaker/ [3] https://github.com/sandreas/graft
Comment linking /projects/labelmaker/
on “Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?”Submitted Tips and tricks for efficient meetings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBuild a phoniebox with her (see https://pilabor.com/projects/labelmaker/ ) - Some crafting - Some electronics - If you wish some programming - A lot of fun afterwards...
Comment linking /projects/labelmaker/
on “Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity”Submitted Learn Concepts, Not Frameworks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy workflow is 1. Buying used and reasonably priced original music CDs 2. Ripping them with EAC[1] and an external LG BH16NS55 to FLAC format (takes 120 seconds per CD - this drive is FAST and ACCURATE) 3. Auto-import the ripped FLACs into my beets.io database via cronjob (which also unifies the metadata automatically in 99% of the cases) 4. Inplace-convert the FLACs to 192kbps mp3 via `beet convert` 5. Archiving th…
Comment linking /blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/
on “Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor”Submitted How to setup a secure file server with chroot SFTP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShell scripting: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/shell-scripting-cheatsheet/ Markdown: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/markdown-cheatsheet/
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/markdown-cheatsheet/
on “Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?”Submitted HTML / CSS tricks, you might not know as a story · 2 points
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