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Brajeshwar Oinam
Personal blog · brajeshwar.com · on HN as Brajeshwarstartupswriting
Brajeshwar Oinam writes Brajeshwar, a personal blog at brajeshwar.com about startups and writing. Since 2008, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 229 times, most often “Plain Text”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, 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 this post in a discussion of plagiarism and attribution around 'A myth called the Indian programmer', noting that its author credited a Times of India article only as 'inspired by'.
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.
I’m on an adventure to create beautiful, meaningful products that improve the world for my daughters and their friends.
Most-linked posts?
- Plain Text2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-11-18
- Are Indian Programmers not Programmers but just coders?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-30
- Fixing a DOS Computer for the Army (1993)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
- There are people who still didn't knew this, and they call iOS intuitive 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-08
- "I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo."2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-04
What Hacker News says?
You might like to read this too, "Are you a programmer or a coder?" http://brajeshwar.com/2007/are-you-a-programmer-or-a-coder/
Comment linking /2007/are-you-a-programmer-or-a-coder/
on “Don't Call Yourself a Programmer”Submitted Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for as a story · 365 points
HN discussionPersonally, I do believe and still on the perpetual aim for that “You have to be right just once.” For me, it is not about the “right one(s).” My philosophy is that I should be able to “Walk Out” from situations, deals, and options that I picked and be ready for the next. I wrote about Walking Out,[1] but more from a content/digital life perspective. I do follow similar thinking with life situations too. I’m neither…
Comment linking /2025/can-i-walk-out/
on “All it takes is for one to work out”Submitted DeSopa Circumvents SOPA — Despite its Anti-Circumvention Measures as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSame here; I stumbled on HTML for the first time in the '90s. I started with HotDog from the CDs that came in the magazines. https://brajeshwar.com/2024/hotdog-sausage-software/
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on “Show HN: HTML for People”Submitted Jobs and Hiring – You’re doing it all wrong as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI have thought of this; thought not unto 500 years but more like -- so my kids can just keep to somewhere to read. My thought process was to start with as much simplification as possible -- plain text. While you are still able to maintain that, perhaps write in something like Markdown -- plain text enough with the formatting enough to separate the sections/content. Use a tool to convert those to HTML, which can be h…
Comment linking /2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
on “Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?”Submitted Are Indian Programmers not Programmers but just coders? as a story · 20 points
HN discussionhttps://brajeshwar.com is my personal website since 2001. Always have been kinda minimal.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted "I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo." as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThere is the ever popular book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” I like it in ways that it helps you reflect on your own lifestyle and interactions with people. Of course, one should build up their own ways of living, nonetheless, I like the book and often re-read it. https://brajeshwar.com/2016/how-to-win-friends-and-influence...
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on “My stages of learning to be a socially normal person”Submitted Mastering Gamification by Gabe Zichermann [video] as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWell, here is the brief https://brajeshwar.com/about/
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on “The internet changed my life”Submitted "Entrepreneur in Residence" – Who are you kidding? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf one uses Dropbox too, letting Dropbox to manage screenshots is a clean way. I wrote about my steps at https://brajeshwar.com/2015/setup-dropbox-to-manage-your-scr...
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on “macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers”Submitted Smart CSS Coders use CSS Pre-Processors, so should you. as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSince the last few years, I have made it a habit to write about the books[1] I read without trying to add my smart-a* comment but more as a way to come back later in life and read the articles. For this year, here are some of the books I liked (quite a few of them are re-reads); - The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi (English Version) - Genghis Khan and the Making of the Mo…
Comment linking /2021/books-of-2021/
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?”Submitted Quirky, yet accurate, Peter Theil on Tech Innovation Stagnation as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI have had a blog since 2001 (wow! about to hit 25 years soon), while many of my peers have dropped off. Remember, this was the time when Wikipedia started. I’ve neglected it and have not taken care of it as much as I used to 10+ years ago. I did away with analytics about 5 years ago. WP-Engine grandfathered me while I was on WordPress, but I gave that up, too. Now, I write for myself, mostly to remember things that…
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on “Why I still blog after 15 years”Submitted Y Combinator’s new Gambit is the ultimate founder dating & recruiting manna as a story · 6 points
HN discussionObsidian answers one of the key questions I asked these days of tools that I use, “Can I walk out of this easily and seamlessly?” The best tools are the ones that get things done and get out of the way. When the time comes, you can walk out of Obsidian easily without being a hostage in any format. The few plugins that I use are the ones I can walk out too and live without it. I love the idea of spending extra time t…
Comment linking /2025/obsidian/
on “Ditching Obsidian and building my own”Submitted The Pandemic Stress Test as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI like writing much better,[1] and after a fair share of Moleskin, Field Notes, and a long streak with Muji, I’m now blown away by Midori. I have already gotten a few, and I’m going to get a lot more. The tactile ‘scratch’ of the fountain pen on the Midori Paper is so soothing, it makes me feel like I’m a poet even when I’m writing down the most mundane idea that I just had. :-) https://brajeshwar.com/2025/notes/
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on “As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook”Submitted The Startup Winter Is Always Coming as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPi-Hole is brilliant. I set up[1] one few years back and used for over a year. Here are the issues; - When I'm away from home and traveling, if something goes wrong, the Pi-Hole is usually the single source of that error, and is hard to solve by talking to my wife to walkthrough the settings. - A few websites (India in my case), mostly government ones, do not work when Ads are blocked. Try paying LIC Premium or even…
Comment linking /2019/pi-hole-blocking-ads-at-home/
on “Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster”Submitted Craigslist: The Eternal Startup That Refused to Grow Up as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAbout 7-8 years ago, I fell in love with Japanese stationery, starting with a simple brand—Muji. I’m never going back. For pens, I’m with Lamy and Kaweco for now, but I’m eager to try a bunch of Japanese brands. Recently, I caved in and bought a few Midori MD notebooks.[1] Try them, mainly if you write with a fountain pen. The tactile feedback and the subtle scratchy sound become the music that fills the silent room…
Comment linking /2024/midori/
on “The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)”Submitted Olacabs, a bad User Experience as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSame here. I have been doing more and more of Plain Text. I wrote about my thoughts on it for my archives at https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/ Google/Search tends to send quite a lot of people looking for how to take notes with Plain Text, and they seem to have benefited from my simple write-up.
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on “Using static websites for tiny archives”Submitted Original Startup Garage: Hobbyists, Hackers, and Home PCs as a story · 4 points
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