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Hari Rana

Personal blog · tesk.pageprogrammingsystemswriting

Hari Rana writes TheEvilSkeleton, a personal blog at tesk.page about programming, systems and writing. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on D-Bus problems on the Linux desktop as a response to flatkill.org. The only comment is a bare link, so it says nothing about the writing itself.

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.

Welcome to my personal website! My name is Hari Rana (pronounced as Harry). I’m a 24-year-old transgender developer and content writer from Montréal, Canada, and use any/all pronouns. I’m known as TheEvilSkeleton online, but you can call me Skelly, Tessy, or Tesk for short.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-03
  2. Gnome Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. preisschild · 2025-12-16
    https://tesk.page/2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org/

    Comment linking /2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org/

    on “Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop”
  2. butz · 2024-06-03

    Submitted Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language as a story · 118 points

    HN discussion
  3. todsacerdoti · 2025-06-19

    Submitted It's true, “we” don't care about accessibility on Linux as a story · 105 points

    HN discussion
  4. todsacerdoti · 2025-07-26

    Submitted Gnome Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  5. mwheeler · 2025-07-26

    Submitted Gnome Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. mariuz · 2026-08-01

    Submitted Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. uneven9434 · 2026-07-20

    Submitted How far would hostile distributions go to hurt application developers? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. goranmoomin · 2023-11-16

    Submitted How to Propose Features to Gnome: Taking GNOME's Philosophy into Consideration as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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