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The Tech Faucet
Personal blog · blog.ringerc.id.auprogrammingdatasystems
The Tech Faucet is a personal blog at blog.ringerc.id.au about programming, data and systems. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in a thread on hackable e-readers. The linked post covers Kobo e-reader firmware and whether its modified source code is published.
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.
Yet another tech geek weblog with a focus on technical Linux and open source, particularly server-side PostgreSQL and Kubernetes
What Hacker News says?
> they publish their modified Qt sources, so you can even rebuild the UI framework without much effort Really? AFAIK, only parts of the distro are liberated, here: https://github.com/kobolabs/Kobo-Reader Most notably, the user interface itself ("Nickel") is completely missing from there: this makes it really hard to develop extensions for it. Some people have gone through great lengths to try and improve the firmwar…
Comment linking /search/label/kobo
on “Ask HN: Cheap, hackable e-reader?”Submitted PostgreSQL packaging on Mac OS X is a mess as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding PostgreSQL database corruption as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted More uses for Postgres as a story · 1 points
HN discussion