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xyrillian.de
Personal blog · xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts · on HN as majewskyprogrammingwriting
xyrillian.de is a personal blog at xyrillian.de about programming and writing. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for critiques of Linux package formats, especially its RPM post (argh-pm), which commenters cite when discussing RPM and DEB. Its latency and hosting post is also cited.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27
- /thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermath.html2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-06-10
What Hacker News says?
If this were true, then a 10fps movie clip would be indistinguishable from a 24fps or a 60fps one. I have written several years ago about how optimizing my shell prompt from 50ms to 5ms was definitely a noticeable impact on how snappy the shell felt: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters.html
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/latency-matters.html
on “Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio”Same for my site: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermath.html
on “Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game”HN traffic isn't all that demanding[1]. Websites falling under the load are a testament to the poor quality of the software stack used to host them. [1]: < https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat... >
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermath.html
on “This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem”> ability to handle HN hug-of-death Seriously, this is bullshit. When my blog was on the frontpage, CPU load on my single 1-core VPS peaked at 5% and bandwidth usage was about 1 megabit per second. No Netlify, no Cloudflare, no nothing. If your website cannot handle the HN crowd, it's just badly engineered. Period. Source: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermath.html
on “Always Own Your Platform”> RPM on the other hand is an over-engineered mess: < https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html >. Tangentially, YUM and DNF were the slowest package managers I've ever used. They're a real pain. I like OpenSuse but man zypper is possibly the slowest package manager ever!! Can't even download in parallel. I think they are now moving to dnf.
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
on “Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu”Debs are very easy to make and their structure is easy to understand for anyone who's been using Linux for at least a couple months. They're just tarballs with a couple special text files. What's hard is Debian's official tools to make debs, which are geared towards people who want to become maintainers of packages in official Debian repos. If you don't aim to become one, there are third-party tools which make it ea…
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
on “Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu”> Hey... I want to automatically compress the script file The trick is to write so little JS that its bandwidth usage does not even register. I'm recently going as far as to include licensing headers and extensive comments in my website JS, see e.g. < https://xyrillian.de/res/chapter-marks.js >.
Comment linking /res/chapter-marks.js
on “Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)”A simple nginx also holds up very well: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermath.html
on “How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?”SEO is overrated. Focus on high-quality content that people want to link to. Case in point: I have a podcast (in German) whose name is a common German phrase ("Gar nicht so einfach", which translates to "Not that easy"). In SERPs for that phrase, the first few results are usually dictionaries, but my podcast's site ( https://xyrillian.de/noises/gnse/ ) usually appears around 7th or 8th place still on the first page.…
Comment linking /noises/gnse/
on “Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?”This article goes into more detail of RPM: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
on “RPM Packages Explained”https://xyrillian.de My website has mostly two halfs: my podcasts and radio shows (German only), and my blog (English only). I'm starting a second podcast show next week where I visit hackerspaces across Germany, so if any German listeners are interested, keep an eye out for that. Source code is at https://github.com/majewsky/xyrillian.de - Most parts are autogenerated (e.g. the build process pulls metadata from the…
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on “Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?”You don't actually need a CDN or caching to survive being on the HN frontpage: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermat...
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/latency-matters-aftermath.html
on “The Goals of XML at 25: and the one change that XML now needs”The rpm file format is indeed a pile of bytes put together haphazardly. https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
Comment linking /thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
on “APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and Ubuntu) packages”https://xyrillian.de - Most of it has not been touched in quite a while, but I do post podcasts every three weeks.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”> The most popular option of this kind, DEB, is actually even worse to work with imo Simply incorrect: https://xyrillian.de/thoughts/posts/argh-pm.html
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on “Switching to Fedora Silverblue”