Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album(ben.page)

299 points by benborgers 2 years ago | 134 comments

I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper(mfasold.net)

195 points by mfld 1 year ago | 107 comments

M4 Mac mini's efficiency(jeffgeerling.com)

518 points by marinesebastian 1 year ago | 515 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post from November 2024 on the power efficiency of Apple's M4 Mac mini, written amid his Pi 5 GPU and AmpereOne server testing.

Consensus Board Game(matklad.github.io)

65 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 9 comments

My Inky Dashboard (2022)(dracos.co.uk)

11 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 6 comments

Maybe Bluesky has "won"(anderegg.ca)

395 points by GavinAnderegg 1 year ago | 668 comments

Blog post arguing about Bluesky's rise as users flee X, and contending that Bluesky is currently neither federated nor decentralized.

Notes on Managing ADHD(borretti.me)

409 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 211 comments

A personal essay by Fernando Borretti on managing ADHD, divided into high-level strategies and micro-level tactics for tricking yourself into productivity.

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses(blog.ikaes.de)

235 points by aragonite 12 days ago | 101 comments

Blog post showing a technique to invoke arbitrary JavaScript functions without parentheses using Error.prepareStackTrace and prototype overrides.

Being Raised by the Internet(jimmyhmiller.github.io)

792 points by DamonHD 2 years ago | 265 comments

Personal essay by Jimmy Miller about growing up poor with an absent mother and a father with schizophrenia, and how the internet helped raise him.

Why Janet?(ianthehenry.com)

344 points by ianthehenry 3 years ago | 112 comments

Ian Henry's blog post making the case for the Janet Lisp dialect as a simple, fun language for side projects, promoting his free book about it.

Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments(scottbezek.blogspot.com)

200 points by scottbez1 18 days ago | 36 comments

Blog post by Scott Bezek describing how he designed and built a wearable neon-style t-shirt using flexible LED filaments in a few days.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.