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Alistair Shepherd

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Alistair Shepherd's personal blog at alistairshepherd.uk covers programming and web. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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3HN people?
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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2025

I'm Alistair, a web developer in Scotland. I love front-end development including CSS, HTML, and web performance.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used as a story · 140 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted I displayed an open graph image and had to pay how much? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted 16 months with Loop Switch 2 earplugs as a story · 1 points

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