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Alice Bartlett
Personal blog · alicebartlett.co.uk/blogwebcareer
Alice Bartlett's personal blog at alicebartlett.co.uk covers web and career. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Five facts about smell (2014)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alice Bartlett's blog for its weeknotes and its "facts I learned this week" posts. The linked comment also cites a Weaknotes passage critiquing the word 'frictionless' in product design.
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.
The home of typing by Alice Bartlett 👩🏻💻
Most-linked posts?
- Five facts about smell (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-20
What Hacker News says?
Interesting blog in general. For example, these "facts I learned this week" were cool[1], and there is this little gem in Weaknotes 14: > Someone suggested we should be building ‘frictionless’ experiences the other day. I asked them to elaborate and they had a great point about sign up flows that I didn’t disagree with. But I loathe the word ‘frictionless’ in this context. Friction is what is keeping me on my chair…
Comment linking /blog/weaknotes-15
on “Facts about smell (2014)”Submitted Facts about smell (2014) as a story · 141 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to explain technical architecture with a natty little video as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop asking “how can we hire more women?” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five facts about smell (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five facts about smell (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five facts about smell (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five facts about smell (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five facts about smell (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A white-label slide deck as a story · 1 points
HN discussion