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Wesley Moore
Personal blog · wezm.net · on HN as wezmsystemsprogramminghardware
Wesley Moore's personal blog at wezm.net covers systems, programming and hardware. Since 2009, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Monitoring My Garage Door with a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for hands-on notes on Linux and desktop hardware: encrypted-system hibernation, AMD GPU pixel-format bugs, and installing Consolas on macOS. Cited as support or how-to references in font and Linux threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-31
- Monitoring My Garage Door with a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-19
- A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-15
- Making the Web More Readable with Stylus3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-17
- Comparing Alternatives to Top Written in Rust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-21
- Setting the Amdgpu HDMI Pixel Format on Linux2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-30
- Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-28
- My First 3 Weeks of Professional Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-24
- Alpine Linux and Docker Infrastructure Three Years Later2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-04
- Rust Powered Linux.conf.au E-Paper Badge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-27
What Hacker News says?
> The lack of hibernation with an encrypted system is an annoying problem, though. I don't understand. Hibernation to an encrypted swap partition (and even to a swap file on an encrypted rootfs) works normally. > Not buying hardware from certain vendors (Nvidia) helps improve your chances. nVidia just works if you accept the proprietary driver. On the other hand, with AMD, you get fun like this: https://www.wezm.net…
Comment linking /v2/posts/2020/linux-amdgpu-pixel-format/
on “Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice”Submitted An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools as a story · 636 points
HN discussionConsolas is definitely my favourite. I switched over in Windows when I first saw it, and now use it in OSX too. http://www.wezm.net/technical/2010/08/howto-install-consolas...
Comment linking /technical/2010/08/howto-install-consolas-font-mac/
on “New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro”Submitted Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker as a story · 377 points
HN discussionI'm using Feedly. Checking it once a couple of weeks and happy about my flow. Here are the blogs that I follow: - https://jvns.ca/atom.xml - http://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml - https://blog.kowalczyk.info/atom.xml - https://ashfurrow.com/feed.xml - https://sneak.berlin/feed.xml - https://sookocheff.com/index.xml - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/feed/rss - https://zachholman.com/atom.xml - https://www.wezm.net/v2/…
Comment linking /v2/rss.xml
on “Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?”Submitted Building a hybrid native application with Gleam and Tauri as a story · 102 points
HN discussionThe article says of Consolas: "Too bad it’s not free … if it was, it would be #1 on this list." Consolas actually can be downloaded for free, legally. If you're on Windows, you can download an installer for the font directly from Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e... If you're on a Mac, slightly more effort is required. Instructions can be found at: http://www.wezm.net/2009/03…
Comment linking /2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/
on “Top Programming Fonts”Submitted TUI for lobste.rs, Written in Rust as a story · 77 points
HN discussionCall it stealing if you want, but here is a little tutorial on how to get the non-free Consolas font without buying anything from Microsoft. The font is included in a free to download dmg file from microsoft. http://www.wezm.net/2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/
Comment linking /2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/
on “Hivelogic - Top Programming Fonts”Submitted A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI'd recommend Consolas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas OS X Install → http://www.wezm.net/2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/ With slightly more effort it can be installed on linux.
Comment linking /2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/
on “Beautiful fixed-width fonts for OSX”Submitted Monitoring My Garage Door with a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> Pretty much most and Thinkpad or Dell works out of the box. …except for AMD ones with AMD GPU :( https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2020/linux-amdgpu-pixel-format... or Intel ones with a particular wifi card https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203709 I however agree with you that at least for me, the Linux desktop on almost all laptops and desktops "just works". Especially when comparing with Macbooks - you hav…
Comment linking /v2/posts/2020/linux-amdgpu-pixel-format/
on “Why SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle”Submitted Building a Tiny CDN with Pyinfra and Chimera Linux as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doing My Day Job on Chimera Linux as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring My Garage Door with a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alpine Linux and Docker Infrastructure Three Years Later as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Alternatives to Top Written in Rust as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Powered Linux.conf.au E-Paper Badge as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monitoring my garage door with a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13MB Linux system as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Killer Linux GUI for Neovim: NeovimGtk as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Website Fit for 1999 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Web More Readable with Stylus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop (Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exporting YouTube Subscriptions to OPML and Watching via RSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting the Amdgpu HDMI Pixel Format on Linux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First 3 Weeks of Professional Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First 3 Weeks of Professional Rust as a story · 3 points
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