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.
What HN saysHN commenters link it as an example of a good personal blog, pointing to posts on old desktops, Pi-hole and a 486 storage upgrade.
30HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
100stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Cool things people do with their blogs3 people · 249 points · first shared 2022 · 32 comments on HN
- 2Is It Worth It to Optimize Images for Your Site?3 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 3The internet is no longer a safe haven2 people · 258 points · first shared 2025 · 199 comments on HN
- 4An Ode to the Game Boy Advance2 people · 83 points · first shared 2025 · 40 comments on HN
- 5The PicoGUS, a Modern ISA Sound Card2 people · 7 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 6Pair Programming with ChatGPT: An Experience Report2 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7When Is a Site Considered a Blog?2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 8No Time to Learn (Web) Framework X2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 925 Years of ADSL Speed2 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 10The Challenge of Buying Games at Physical Stores2 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 11Overlooked Reasons to Still Buy Physical Media2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 12Banning Syntax Highlighting Steroids2 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 13My sourdough starter has twins1 people · 219 points · first shared 2025 · 83 comments on HN
- 14Error Handling in Baby Toys1 people · 169 points · first shared 2024 · 73 comments on HN
- 15I don’t need a Steam Machine1 people · 145 points · first shared 2025 · 272 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jbm · 2024-05-28
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.
cocacola1 · 2023-05-13
- 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/
walrus01 · 2021-01-24
jessfyi · 2022-08-24
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-…
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