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Ajay Ramachandran
Personal blog · blog.ajay.appprogrammingweb
Ajay Ramachandran's personal blog at blog.ajay.app covers programming and web. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-07, 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 Ajay Ramachandran's blog for posts on SponsorBlock, including its voting system and pseudo-randomness, and on sponsorship and paid developer marketing.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I think this is the most interesting read: https://blog.ajay.app/voting-and-pseudo-randomness-or-sponso...
Comment linking /voting-and-pseudo-randomness-or-sponsorblock-or-youtube-sponsorship-segment-blocker
on “SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube”Submitted Voting and Pseudo-Randomness – SponsorBlock (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Do you believe that sponsorships are worse that targeted digital advertising? With podcasts, it seems people are now trying to get the worst of both worlds, with dynamic advertisements from a pool based on who you are + the ads are read out by the podcast creator. I can't say that either case is worse than the other, but they are bad for different reasons. > Do you believe there are any Youtubers who have acted et…
Comment linking /full-video-sponsorblock
on “How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing”