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Beng Tan
Personal blog · bengtan.com · on HN as bengtanstartupsprogramming
Beng Tan's personal blog at bengtan.com covers startups and programming. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Open secrets about Hacker News”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Beng Tan's blog covers self-improvement, productivity and tech-adjacent writing. Commenters value its curated 'interesting-things' list of stories that did not reach the HN front page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Beng Tan's personal blog where I write about software, tech, startups and random things.
Most-linked posts?
- /interesting-things/4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-06-17
- Open secrets about Hacker News3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-28
- What's in email tracking links and pixels?2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
What Hacker News says?
Hi, I come across a lot of blogs when I curate for my newsletter Interesting Things [1]. Just looking through the links that have been curated in the past month or so, I would suggest: Tech - https://wasteofserver.com/ - https://tonsky.me/ - https://brianschrader.com/ - https://blog.thea.codes/ - https://fasterthanli.me/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://blog.royalsloth.eu/ Non-tech - https://www.drorpoleg.com/ - About w…
Comment linking /interesting-things
on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Open secrets about Hacker News as a story · 503 points
HN discussionMy version: https://bengtan.com/css-named-colours-picker/
Comment linking /css-named-colours-picker/
on “Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way”Submitted What's in email tracking links and pixels? as a story · 173 points
HN discussionRelatedly, I link to a lot of personal blogs in my newsletter Interesting Things. They tend to be good quality blogs (otherwise I wouldn't linking to them) so you'd probably find some good stuff there. Newsletter: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things Sample issue: https://bengtan.com/newsletter/sample More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255
Comment linking /newsletter/sample
on “Curated list of personal blogs”Submitted Show HN: Email Cleaner: Clean tracking links and pixels from email newsletters as a story · 22 points
HN discussionMy own newsletter / database of tech links: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things My own css colour selector/picker: https://bengtan.com/css-named-colours-picker/ My own anti-email-tracking service: https://bengtan.com/blog/email-cleaner-clean-tracking-links-... / https://bengtan.com/blog/email-untracker My own accounting app: https://www.gigobooks.com/
Comment linking /blog/email-untracker
on “Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?”Submitted What's in email tracking links and pixels? as a story · 5 points
HN discussion85% into the article > So far this has been mostly drivel. Yep, and the other 15% is not that different. The other day a person here showed a site he created where he aggregates all the "good" articles that dont get any traction here ( https://bengtan.com/interesting-things/ ) . The existence of that site combined with the multiple first-page appearance of articles like this one or even ones of lesser quality is a p…
Comment linking /interesting-things/
on “How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating”Submitted A newsletter that curates stories which didn't make the frontpage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionRSS feed https://bengtan.com/index.xml
Comment linking /index.xml
on “Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page”Submitted What's in email tracking links and pixels? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionClickable links; [1] https://bengtan.com/interesting-things [2] https://bengtan.com/newsletter/sample (redirects to the latest public edition)
Comment linking /newsletter/sample
on “Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page”Submitted Show HN: Email-untracker: Get rid of tracking links and spy pixels (self-hosted) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGetting on the front page is hit and miss - this was interesting yesterday: https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/ For what it's worth I didn't read the article and come away thinking well of Chevron. I'm sure it's biased, but I read it and was shocked by his treatment, came here to read more.
Comment linking /blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/
on “Chevron wins case to jail lawyer Steven Donziger”Submitted Untracker: Uncloak tracking links and remove spy pixels from email newsletters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Perth, Australia (GMT+8 all year round; no DST) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Doubtful but not ruling it out I'm currently in a project but just wondering what else is out there. Good competent devs are hard to find. My clients pay US$120+ per hour for my services. Come see what I can do for you. I won't be on the market for long :) ---- Technologies: * Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, GoLang, Python, PHP…
Comment linking /resume
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)”Submitted Untracker: Uncloak tracking links and remove spy pixels from email newsletters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSimilar: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things/
Comment linking /interesting-things/
on “Tell HN: Thank you for the noprocrast flag”Submitted My go-to tool for reading long JSON snippets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Perth, Australia (GMT+8 all year round; no DST) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Doubtful but not ruling it out ---- Technologies: I've been around for quite a while and done something of everything but here are some of the more relevant: * GoLang, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python * Web development, LAMP, jQuery, Mysql, Sqlite, Symfony, Amazon AWS * ReactJS and the usual javascript ecosystem * Rea…
Comment linking /resume
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)”Submitted So Long as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Perth, Australia (GMT+8 all year round; no DST) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Doubtful but not ruling it out I'm currently in a project but just wondering what else is out there. Good competent devs are hard to find. My clients pay US$100+ per hour for my services. Come see what I can do for you. I won't be on the market for long. :) ---- Technologies: * Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, GoLang, Python, PHP…
Comment linking /resume
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)”Submitted What's in email tracking links and pixels? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | GMT+8 (Perth, Australia) | Remote | Software Engineer | 10+ years experience * GoLang, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python * Web development, LAMP, jQuery, Mysql, Sqlite, Symfony, Amazon AWS * ReactJS and the usual javascript ecosystem * React Native, native Android app development * Good at debugging hard problems (especially those from the field) * See resume for full list (including soft skil…
Comment linking /resume
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)”Submitted App Startup vs. Content Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.abyteofcoding.com/issues/most-recent/ "links and summaries for three high quality technical deep-dives" https://bengtan.com/interesting-things/ "interesting stories and links from technology; adjacent fields such as indie business, science, and productivity" I have one too ( https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/learnbyexample-weekly ) - resources and tools on Python, Linux, Regex, Vim, etc.
Comment linking /interesting-things/
on “How I write and curate the cron.weekly newsletter (2020)”Submitted Show HN: CSS Named Colours Picker (a filterable, multi-sortable table) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | GMT+8 (Perth, Australia) | Remote | Software Engineer | 10+ years experience I'm currently in a project but just wondering what else is out there. Good competent devs are hard to find. My clients pay US$120+ per hour for my services. Come see what I can do for you. I won't be on the market for long :) Technologies: * Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, GoLang, PHP, Python * Web development, LAMP, jQuery, My…
Comment linking /resume
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2021)”Submitted A New Beginning as a story · 2 points
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