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Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
A fun, if predictable and pointless exercise.
Rubenerd
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
- Popular posts
- 19
- Total points
- 5,146
- HN comments
- 3,875
- Rank
- #210 personal
Visit rubenerd.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Sep 2020 – Mar 2026
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Boring tech is mature, not old
Talking about my description of tech as “boring” to be a compliment, and how to think about it.
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My essential Firefox fixes in 2022
Despite Mozilla’s best efforts, I’m still using their browser nearly 20 years on. Here are my tips.
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We need physical audio kill switches
PARDON!?
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The "email is authentication" pattern
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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The beauty of CGI and simple design
Finding someone still singing CGIs praises is surprising, and some alliteration.
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Xfce is great
A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.
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Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
So many lines in that song have been surpassed, but RAM sticks out as something that hasn’t.
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A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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My New Sony NW-A55 Walkman
A fun, small, affordable, and beautifully-crafted media player that’s easy to transfer files to, and sounds excellent.
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Mozilla's latest quagmire
Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.
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All web "content" is freeware
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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Is stuff online worth saving?
I’ll admit, the question took me back a bit. But I’d say yes, it is.
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A report on exercise and sleep (2021)
News outlets broadly got the message right, but not sure about some of the numbers.
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Why aren’t you more serious?
Feedback about random posts and sporadic seriousness.
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Using Thunderbird for RSS
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.
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VMware outsourcing their support
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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Got my ultimate retro KVM setup working
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
And why you should too!