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    Brain Baking

    brainbaking.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2018

    Brain Baking is a personal blog by a developer covering retro computing, games, blogging, self-hosting, web performance and programming experiments.

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    Retro ComputingGamesWeb Development
    What HN says

    HN commenters link it as an example of a good personal blog, pointing to posts on old desktops, Pi-hole and a 486 storage upgrade.

    Stats for nerds
    30HN people shared it
    100linked in comments
    1.7Kstory points
    May 2024last shared
    2021people per year2024

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      The internet is no longer a safe haven
      2 people · 258 points · first shared 2025 · 199 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Cool things people do with their blogs
      3 people · 249 points · first shared 2022 · 32 comments on HN
    3. 3
      My sourdough starter has twins
      1 person · 219 points · first shared 2025 · 83 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Error Handling in Baby Toys
      1 person · 169 points · first shared 2024 · 73 comments on HN
    5. 5
      I don’t need a Steam Machine
      1 person · 145 points · first shared 2025 · 272 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Pimp Your Board Games
      1 person · 126 points · first shared 2024 · 50 comments on HN
    7. 7
      I Miss BSD/Linux
      1 person · 94 points · first shared 2024 · 241 comments on HN
    8. 8
      An Ode to the Game Boy Advance
      2 people · 83 points · first shared 2025 · 40 comments on HN
    9. 9
      The case of a leaky goroutine
      1 person · 74 points · first shared 2024 · 84 comments on HN
    10. 10
      Go should sometimes be a no-go
      1 person · 60 points · first shared 2024 · 78 comments on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • jessfyiAug 2022

      https://maggieappleton.com/ for her take on a digital garden. She also compiled more below [0] if opening your thought process to the public is your thing (adopting the concept actually got me to add more structure to my serious notes and actually post more)

      https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works because of how in-depth he went with hosting his notes, bookmarks, and other projects.

      https://wattenberger.com/ for its reactivity/place for her d3.js experiments.

      and here is a general collection of dope blog additions: https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-with-their-blogs/

      My overall advice is unless you're a designer flexing your skills is to focus less on the design and more on the actual writing! The internet is littered with the emaciated husks of nice good looking sites hosting nary an entry beyond "How I Made My New Blog With X"

      [0] https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners

    • jbmMay 2024

      The look at his old desktop hit hard (https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/11/desktop-screenshots-of-olde/). I recently switched back to Ubuntu, but I was using Regolith with a similar look for a while and I loved it.

      Unfortunately, having a tiling WM when most apps don't expect it mean you run into all sorts of corner cases that the app developer didn't think of. No hope of resolution either.

    • cocacola1May 2023

      - https://satyrs.eu/

      - https://brainbaking.com/

      - https://brianlovin.com/

      - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

      - https://css-irl.info/

      - https://protesilaos.com/

      - https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/

      - https://publicdomainreview.org/

      And, more for content than design (though I do like the look)

      - https://www.newyorker.com/

      - https://www.theparisreview.org/

      - https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/

    • walrus01Jan 2021

      such things do exist: https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-SDHC-Adapter-40Pin-Driver/dp/B00KZI94HC

      https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/09/486-upgrade-sd-hdd/

      https://www.drem.info/

      http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/

    • 1vuio0pswjnm7Aug 2023

      https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/08/six-months-with-pi-hole/

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