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    bt.ht

    bt.ht · Personal blog · on HN since 2022

    Personal site covering design, programming, hardware and Linux, including ThinkPad modifications, web typography, and low-tech computing choices.

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    What HN says

    HN comments describe it as rambling about design, programming, hardware and Linux. It is shared in discussions of small, lightweight personal sites.

    Stats for nerds
    15HN people shared it
    31linked in comments
    247story points
    Apr 2023last shared

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop
      1 person · 86 points · first shared 2023 · 141 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Switching Things over to Ikiwiki
      1 person · 45 points · first shared 2023 · 27 comments on HN
    3. 3
      The Death of Personality (2017)
      1 person · 38 points · first shared 2023 · 16 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Making Tables Responsive with Minimal CSS (2019)
      1 person · 18 points · first shared 2022 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
      2 people · 15 points · first shared 2023 · 10 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Stop Using Hamburger Menus
      1 person · 8 points · first shared 2023 · 2 comments on HN
    7. 7
      My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2023 · 6 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop
      3 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      My Text Editor Is Not Open Source
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2024 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      My Robotic Mower Woes
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • qweryApr 2023

      [Disclaimer warning: I appreciate that this discussion is a serious one and I would like to set some expectations about my contribution to it.] Disclaimer: I was aware of what this "club of singular kilobytes[^]" was prior to entering this forum and I had previously read the creator's blog post about it[0]. Considering my obvious biases, you probably don't need me to tell you to read the following report at your own discretion.

      After reading some of the negative comments here, I followed the link and clicked on about 7 of the pages listed, each in a new tab such that the successive pages may load (at least in part) while I browse the others. What follows is my first hand account of the things I saw in those about 7 tabs.

      I saw a bunch of simple (yet distinct) pages, most of which looked to be "business cards". There was text which was not only legible but of varied form and colour while remaining so. I found that some of them even had style, though nary a sheet was found!

      [Here I must warn you: what follows is so sensational you may very well accuse me of tomfoolery. You have been warned.] Some of the about 7 pages I viewed gave me the impression that the people who made them were having fun, or at the very least enjoyed the creative process. One of them[1] lets you insert your own buzzword!

      [^] kilo or kibi? does the club care? is 1kb 1024 or 1000 bytes? is a byte 8 bits long? big or little end? I don't know, I am not really a real web developer

      [0]…

    • bradley_tauntJan 2023

      https://bt.ht

      Rambling about design, programming, hardware and Linux

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