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The One and the Many
Personal blog · blog.summercat.comprogrammingsystems
The One and the Many is a personal blog at blog.summercat.com about programming and systems. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its game-history writing on the EverQuest dragon Kerafyrm, including an earlier attempt by a Taiwanese guild. Comments point to it as extra background, not as praised writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about programming, technology, and other interests.
Most-linked posts?
- /configuring-mixed-dpi-monitors-with-xrandr.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-02
What Hacker News says?
Here's a good account of what happened as any: https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/04/the-game-archaeologist-wh... And apparently there was an earlier attempt made by a Taiwanese guild prior to the Rallos Zek expedition: https://blog.summercat.com/the-killing-of-kerafyrm-the-sleep...
Comment linking /the-killing-of-kerafyrm-the-sleeper.html
on “EverQuest players break sacred MMO code by waking up 20-year-old dragon”Submitted Removing PostgreSQL's old_snapshot_threshold as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> eminently stable and usable X11 FUD. Wayland works fine. I have been using Sway for years now without issue. It is also more secure[1], maintained[2] and even works with NVIDIA's proprietary driver. [3][4]. It also isn't the antiquated piece of crap that X11[5] is, which has trouble with things like mixed DPI, and other modern features that Windows and macOS do completely fine without "tweaking" [6]. If Wayland di…
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on “Emacs is my new window manager”The mixed DPI support on X11 is just that each monitor provides a DPI attribute that applications can query. It's up to the application or the toolkit it uses to actually look at this attribute and scale itself properly. In practice, this means that only Qt software will have DPI awareness on multi-monitor setups, and it requires having the "QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1" environment variable set for applications th…
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on “Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust”