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Adam Wiggins
Personal blog · adamwiggins.com · on HN as adamwigginsprogrammingproductivity
Adam Wiggins's personal blog at adamwiggins.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Muse Retrospective”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Adam Wiggins's retrospective on Muse, a startup that never found product-market fit. One commenter also lists his blog among favourite blogs not about AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Let’s work on improving software and the internet.
Most-linked posts?
- Muse Retrospective3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-17
- Making Computers Better2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-29
- Making computers better, part 4: How we interact with our tools2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-18
- Personal Information Firehose2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-13
- We Pay for Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-08
What Hacker News says?
GoodNotes is great! More of a digital sketchbook (and better than Muse if you're focused purely on the inking/sketching part of things). On paying for software, here's some rationale: https://adamwiggins.com/making-computers-better/pay
Comment linking /making-computers-better/pay
on “Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync”Submitted Muse Retrospective as a story · 71 points
HN discussionTo start, I really liked the idea behind Muse, but they couldn't find PMF: https://adamwiggins.com/muse-retrospective/ And more recently, buildspace :( Nothing but respect for all the hackers & founders who tried to put something new out there
Comment linking /muse-retrospective/
on “Ask HN: What's your favourite startup that didn't work out?”Submitted Muse Retrospective · Adam Wiggins as a story · 44 points
HN discussionhttps://worrydream.com https://macwright.com/ https://www.petemillspaugh.com/ https://www.geoffreylitt.com/ https://maggieappleton.com/ https://www.robinsloan.com/ https://thesephist.com/ https://wattenberger.com/ http://conal.net/ https://www.todepond.com/ https://devonzuegel.com/ https://nadia.xyz/ https://adamwiggins.com/ http://glench.com/ https://ncase.me/ Classic from my old Haskell professor: https://byorgey.…
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?”Submitted We Pay for Software as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Muse Retrospective as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Politics and Emotion at Local-First Conf as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personal Information Firehose as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Computers Better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we create and deliver software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making computers better, part 4: How we interact with our tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email triage with an embedding-based classifier as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personal Information Firehose as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Sync as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Computers Better as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making computers better part 3 ‣ how we store and collaborate on our work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Computers Better as a story · 1 points
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