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Abner
Personal blog · abner.page/postprogrammingwritingculture
Abner is a personal blog at abner.page about programming, writing and culture. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Exit the Feed: The Best Coders Should Walk Away”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Exit the Feed: The Best Coders Should Walk Away3 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2025-10-04
- Are We Harold Bloom?2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-06-10
- My C23 Conventions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-15
What Hacker News says?
A bit of a shameless plug: join a coding community [0] putting in-person meetups above online interactions [1]. It doesn't have to be ours, just any group of developers invested in the idea of craftsmanship. This may not solve your concerns directly but it's a step in the right direction. From where I stand, we're never going to find what you want in the workplace for reasons which predate LLMs: job hopping, remote/…
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on “"Vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell" in coding education”Submitted My C23 Conventions as a story · 10 points
HN discussionOh hah, I guess my blog post came a month after this one. Near-identical subject matter. [0] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/
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on “User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality”Submitted Exit the Feed: The Best Coders Should Walk Away as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMy last post [0] has proof-of-work: video evidence of my physical notes. How many people are willing to draft a complete essay on pen and paper first? [0] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/
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on “If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort”Submitted My C23 Conventions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAgreed, but If I can add one more angle: creative destruction is strangled when engineers are glued to the Internet about “how software should be built.” I've published a blog post urging [0] top programmers to quit for‑profit social media and rebuild better norms away from that noise. [0] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/
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on “Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing?”Submitted Exit the Feed: The Best Coders Should Walk Away as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> This has the happy flipside that anyone who would like readers to classify their article as high-status rather than low-status can apply the judo move of simply writing it themselves. I really really hope more people take up pen and paper! My last blog post [0] came with proof-of-work attached. It was well-received. [0] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/
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on “Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles”Submitted Are We Harold Bloom? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVery commendable, I'll keep tabs on this initiative. If you'll forgive the plug our community is tackling the same issue [0] but from an offline angle (read: meatspace > cyber) Good luck to the rebels. [0] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/
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on “The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page”Submitted Exit the Feed: The Best Coders Should Walk Away as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBookmarked! Excited to look into this and potentially subscribe this week. Our coding meetups [0] are going increasingly offline and I'm looking for ways to exit the feed [1]. So I really want to learn from organizations like The Offline Club and now you. [0] https://handmadecities.com/meetups [1] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/
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on “Show HN: I added a print edition to my indie blog”Someone paid a chef to make a fancy pizza, then told his friend "look what I made!" The author's message would've landed if he demonstrated human authorship. Like this blog post [0] attaching a notebook page or my own [1] video proof. [0] https://vinxis.moe/posts/writing-2026-07-15 [1] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/
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on “Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now”I wrote last month that it starts with programmers [0]. Once a critical mass exits the feed, we can make better software. [0] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/
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