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BLEN, Inc.

Company blog · blencorp.com/blogprogrammingweb

BLEN, Inc. is the company blog at blencorp.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link BLEN's write-up on the background of Unfurlough.us, a freelance gig site for furloughed employees. The comments mostly correct who built the site, not judge the writing.

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.

BLEN is a small, AI-native team in Washington, D.C. building digital services for federal agencies: agentic AI, legacy modernization and accessible digital services.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Your reference to making lemonade from lemons seems to imply that the people who made it were furloughed. This doesn't appear to be the case. It seems to have been built by people working for a private company: http://www.blencorp.com/

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    on “Unfurlough.us – Freelance gigs for furloughed employees”
  2. Submitted Exporting and Importing Taxonomy Terms with Drush as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. The site is back up. Check it out at http://unfurlough.us Also did some write up on the background if you're interested: http://www.blencorp.com/blog/2013/10/unfurlough-us-freelance...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/10/unfurlough-us-freelance-gigs-furloughed-employees/

    on “Unfurlough.us – Freelance gigs for furloughed employees”
  4. Submitted JSearch: Simple jQuery/XML based search as a story · 1 points

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