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Tomas Vik
Personal blog · blog.viktomas.com/posts · on HN as vicek22programmingproductivityhealth
Tomas Vik's personal blog at blog.viktomas.com covers programming, productivity and health. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Why do you forget most of what you read?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Google account recovery and security practices, analysing YouTube watch history from Google Takeout, and stove energy use. One commenter calls the YouTube post a nice example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal blog about software, learning, privacy and healthy lifestyle.
Most-linked posts?
- Why do you forget most of what you read?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-31
- A script to analyse 7 years of my YouTube history2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-10
- Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-07
- James Gleick – Isaac Newton2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-07
What Hacker News says?
It's a decision I'm sure the author deeply regrets. The author has another post on their blog promoting security practices[1]. Just going to the settings pane to enable 2FA shows your backup options: backup codes, sms, webauthn, etc. I only remember one password, and that's the password to my password manager. The rest are arbitrary random strings. Always use MFA. I employ efforts to make it difficult for an attacke…
Comment linking /posts/security-is-like-ogres/
on “What would you do if you lost your Google account?”Submitted What would you do if you lost your Google account? as a story · 558 points
HN discussionYou should be able to use Google Takeout to get all of your YouTube data, including your watch history. This article is a nice example of someone using it: > When I downloaded all my YouTube data, I’ve noticed an interesting file included. That file was named watch-history and it contained a list of all the videos I’ve ever watched. https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/youtube-usage/ Of course as an European it's a legal…
Comment linking /posts/youtube-usage/
on “I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links”Submitted Zettelkasten note-taking in 10 minutes as a story · 329 points
HN discussion[IndieWeb][1] and how to own all your content online, linking your posts and their responses(likes, replies) on your own website that is called [WebMention][2]. Maybe some trend on how to [annotate and bookmark][3] content online you find interesting in your own collected notes. Speaking of some note taking, there's method called [Zettelkasten][4] and a trend software is called [Roam Research][5]. It is currently tr…
Comment linking /posts/slip-box/
on “Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?”Submitted Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it as a story · 230 points
HN discussion15kWh on an induction stove will bring to boil about 100L of water[1]. If you are just boiling one 2L kettle of water for tea every day, you are out of 60L. Boiling potatoes, making stock, soups etc. is actually much more energy as you are not only bringing water to boil but keep it boiling, while it actively loses energy by making steam. You are probably not cooking much if at all. 1. https://blog.viktomas.com/grap…
Comment linking /graph/boiling-litre-of-water/
on “Nitrogen dioxide exposure due to gas and propane combustion by U.S. stoves”Submitted How my article became one-hit-wonder on HackerNews as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTL;DR Emacs org-mode. A private git repository containing my org files synced with my devices with syncthing, it's a git repository because I commit and push once or twice a month in case I lose all my devices at once, (very unlikely, but... the TAO of Backup http://www.taobackup.com/ ). On Desktop, I use Emacs (well spacemacs), on mobile Orgzly, to manage the actual work, there are still some glitches, but I stumbl…
Comment linking /posts/my-workflow/
on “Ask HN: How do you manage your todos?”Submitted Why do you forget most of what you read? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atul Gawande – The Checklist Manifesto as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy-going work doesn't provide much value as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted James Gleick – Isaac Newton as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zettelkasten note-taking after one year – spoiler: use logseq as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do you forget most of what you read? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Article: Plaintext passwords are sefe enough as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will you sell the thing you just bought as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AdBlockers hide the majority of visitors from web analytics (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Focus on strategic and outsource utility work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Break free from the shackles of YouTube as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A script to analyse 7 years of my YouTube history as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iteration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted James Gleick – Isaac Newton as a story · 1 points
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