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Brad Touesnard

Personal blog · bradt.ca/blog · on HN as bradtstartupscareerwriting

Brad Touesnard's personal blog at bradt.ca covers startups, career and writing. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Make a PDF Look Scanned Using ImageMagick and Automator in macOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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23mentions?
5HN people?
2009–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Brad Touesnard's how-to posts: making a PDF look hand-signed and scanned, and withdrawing PayPal Canada funds to a USD account using an RBC US routing number.

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.

Husband. Father. Founder and CEO of Delicious Brains Inc. Founder of Big Snow Tiny Conf. Former programmer. Lives in Nova Scotia, Canada.

The author on HN?

bradt · 303 karma · member since 2009

Founder of Delicious Brains (http://deliciousbrains.com) and WP App Store (http://wpappstore.com). Web developer/designer. Blog at http://bradt.ca.

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Make a PDF Look Scanned Using ImageMagick and Automator in macOS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. agopaul · 2022-01-22
    Bonus points if you wrap the script in an Automator task in macOS so you can you run it in literally 2 clicks from Finder: https://bradt.ca/blog/how-to-make-a-pdf-look-scanned-imagema... It is even easier now with Shortcuts in the latest macOS releases.

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-make-a-pdf-look-scanned-imagemagick-automator-macos/

    on “FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned”
  2. bradt · 2025-08-31

    Submitted No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search as a story · 139 points

    HN discussion
  3. krrrh · 2013-05-07
    If you use RBC's US routing number for your USD account it is possible to withdraw USD from Paypal Canada directly into your USD funds account. I confirmed that this works: http://bradt.ca/blog/transfer-from-paypal-to-a-us-dollar-acc...

    Comment linking /blog/transfer-from-paypal-to-a-us-dollar-account-at-a-canadian-bank/

    on “Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative”
  4. bradt · 2014-01-10

    Submitted I Hired My Mom as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  5. bradt · 2012-01-30
    I could be wrong, but I've come to believe that grit ( http://bradt.ca/grit-scale.html ) is everything. Because if you don't have revenues or momentum to start, it is grit that will get you there. Those without high grit will quit prematurely.

    Comment linking /grit-scale.html

    on “Bootstrapping: Revenues & Momentum is Everything”
  6. bradt · 2014-04-01

    Submitted Stop commenting your code just to say you did as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  7. bradt · 2009-07-19
    I didn't say free services are a mistake. I said that the “free model” in the particular case of a service where you’re giving away bandwidth and storage space is a bad plan. “Free model” referring to a 100% free service that gains value by accumulating data rather than a revenue stream. As for the lack of paid options, they are on the way. I made the decision to launch with this option and many others in the spirit…

    Comment linking /archives/developing-sharurl-lessons-learned-developing-a-new-startup/

    on “Sharurl: Lessons Learned Developing a New Startup”
  8. bradt · 2013-05-12

    Submitted Stop avoiding regular expressions damn it as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  9. garyrichardson · 2009-07-06

    Submitted Sharurl: Lessons Learned Developing a New Startup as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  10. bradt · 2021-04-22

    Submitted Make a PDF Look Scanned Using ImageMagick and Automator in macOS as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  11. bradt · 2014-12-10

    Submitted Developer Founders Should Start with Hiring a Developer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. bradt · 2014-07-18

    Submitted I’ll give you a job and help you launch your first product as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. bradt · 2013-09-24

    Submitted Why WP App Store Failed as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. bradt · 2012-02-22

    Submitted Founder Inner Conflict: Engineer vs. Entrepreneur as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. bradt · 2014-02-07

    Submitted Go Hack Yourself as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. bradt · 2013-07-08

    Submitted Turn Up Happiness By Turning Down Notifications as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. bradt · 2014-03-06

    Submitted How I write 3x more by blogging on my phone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. bradt · 2014-03-04

    Submitted Ignoring errors from WordPress plugins while developing in debug mode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. krogsgard · 2014-01-31

    Submitted My Journey To Managing My Own WordPress Server as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. bradt · 2014-01-31

    Submitted Keeping an Open Mind as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. bradt · 2013-06-16

    Submitted The Reason Why I Am Loving Android Over The iPhone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. bradt · 2013-03-19

    Submitted Why Firefox DevTools? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. bradt · 2011-12-19

    Submitted Got grit? Web version of the Grit Scale test as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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