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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.
What HN saysHN comments describe it as rambling about design, programming, hardware and Linux. It is shared in discussions of small, lightweight personal sites.
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- 1Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop3 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 2Stop Using Custom Web Fonts2 people · 15 points · first shared 2023 · 10 comments on HN
- 3My Robotic Mower Woes2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 4Embracing Slow Tech2 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 5The X220 ThinkPad is the best laptop1 people · 86 points · first shared 2023 · 141 comments on HN
- 6Switching Things over to Ikiwiki1 people · 45 points · first shared 2023 · 27 comments on HN
- 7The Death of Personality (2017)1 people · 38 points · first shared 2023 · 16 comments on HN
- 8Making Tables Responsive with Minimal CSS (2019)1 people · 18 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 9Stop Using Hamburger Menus1 people · 8 points · first shared 2023 · 2 comments on HN
- 10My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee1 people · 5 points · first shared 2023 · 6 comments on HN
- 11My Text Editor Is Not Open Source1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 12Never Do Spec Work for Free1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13Batch Converting Images to Webp with macOS Automator (2021)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 14HTML Dark Mode1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 15My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · 4 comments on HN
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bradley_taunt · 2023-01-08
https://bt.ht
Rambling about design, programming, hardware and Linux
qwery · 2023-04-06
[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
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