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Addison Del Mastro
Personal blog · thedeletedscenes.substack.comculturedesignwriting
Addison Del Mastro writes The Deleted Scenes, a personal blog at thedeletedscenes.substack.com about culture, design and writing. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on tall vehicle fronts and pedestrian risk. The one comment argues that city living need not be unpleasant and does not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Urbanism, culture, idiosyncrasy.
What Hacker News says?
> not everybody is a fan of living in a rat cage in a soviet urban project > more enjoyable living > freedom to live in more humane settings > nightmarish big cities You appear to be arguing as if this was an axiom--cities are this way, and you struggle through it until you can leave. As if the goal is to make bank and leave the city. But this is the cycle, not the cause. It does not have to be this way, and in many…
Comment linking /p/keep-on-trucking
on “Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians”Submitted Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto as a story · 596 points
HN discussionamid cost of living crisis Britain ease barriers to housing production to end the cost-of-living crisis: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en... and housing famine: https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/the-housing-famine
Comment linking /p/the-housing-famine
on “Savings passbooks popular as Britain turns to cash amid cost of living crisis”Submitted Born This (Urbanist) Way: Did the suburbs take a part of ourselves away from us? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Atari Jaguar's Last Roar as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tiny Storefronts: Human settlements need small commercial spaces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If You Build It, NIMBYs Won't Care as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parking Up the Wrong Tree: On Henry Grabar's "Paved Paradise" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parking Puts It On The Map: Cars distort our sense of place as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Housing Famine: The real nature of our policy-induced housing problem as a story · 1 points
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