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valinet
Personal blog · valinet.roprogrammingsystems
valinet is a personal blog at valinet.ro about programming and systems. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link valinet's Windows tweaking posts and tools, such as ExplorerPatcher for restoring the Windows 10 taskbar and flyouts on Windows 11. Comments praise the software rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineering and hacking
What Hacker News says?
This is incredible, thank you for linking. You run it, display instantly looks better, and has a very nicely laid out set of features to play with Even things like the WiFi flyout (a term I didn't know) can be changed: https://i.imgur.com/JHVvzPG.png Appears its author even dedicated a blog post specifically to this: https://valinet.ro/2021/11/18/Functional-Windows-10-flyouts-...
Comment linking /2021/11/18/Functional-Windows-10-flyouts-on-Windows-11.html
on “The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward”Submitted Automatically backup the iPhone to the Raspberry Pi (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe author answers it here: https://valinet.ro/2021/08/09/Restore-Windows-11-to-working-... Quoting: I could go back to Windows 10, but I actually really enjoy the fact that Windows 11 is based on a much newer Windows build (22000 vs 19043) and that means it comes with a couple of improvements I really really like: [... bla bla WSL2 bla bla...]
Comment linking /2021/08/09/Restore-Windows-11-to-working-Windows-10-UI.html
on “Explorer Patcher for Windows 11”