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it was really great to see these pop up on Hacker News. I would forget about the blog in the daily bustle of my own life and then see the familiar brr.fyi where I could open up a different world for a few minutes.
Like finishing a good book, I'll miss following this person's story! (for a few minutes)
Same! I always go through the last few posts that I missed each time, easily one of my favorite blogs out there.
> At some point in November 2022, this blog took off in popularity. I wasn’t expecting this, but it has been a lot of fun writing something that has brought joy to so many people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=brr.fyi&next=34002411
First post on HN on Oct 31, 2022 (89 comments). Sounds about right :-)
We were reading about Antarctica before it was cool!
it was the big dead place before it was brr.fyi
the site's dead now but archive.is has it https://archive.is/AeC8y
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930646
2013, no comments
This really made me re-think of what I am doing in tech. This seems much more liberating than sitting in front of the computer for the whole day
I have a friend that was on the over-winter IT team.. he has great stories of his winter there. Datacenters where you open a valve to let in super cold super dry air to cool the servers, rathan than think about AC.
no comments there, unfortunately
Lovely photos. What camera is used?
"In the 9 months I’ve been in Antarctica, my trusty cell phone has taken some truly remarkable photos under challenging conditions. Nearly every photo I’ve taken for this blog has been a cell phone photo. " [1]
His "old phone" he keeps in a drawer for internet usage is an Android but I can't see any attribution to his current phone model. [2]
[1] - https://brr.fyi/posts/polar-night [2] - https://brr.fyi/posts/sms-mfa#phone-in-a-drawer
I've run exiftool over some of his photos, and some of them include make and model, and these were the Samsung S22. I haven't gone through all the images, so maybe some other phone models could be found in there.
And some of the images contained "Profile Copyright: Apple Computer Inc." but I don't know if this means that some were shot on an iPhone.
Fun fact: the webcam on the observation hill (https://brr.fyi/posts/observation-hill) is an AXIS Q6055-E.