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Brendan Leonard
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Brendan Leonard writes Semi-Rad.com, a personal blog at semi-rad.com about culture and writing. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked only in passing: one post asks whether a climb counts as really climbed, cited in a thread on Honnold's ropeless El Capitan climb, and another jokingly questions whether the word 'epic' is overused.
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.
The relentless pursuit of the everyman's (and everywoman's) adventure. By Brendan Leonard.
What Hacker News says?
Somewhat related: http://semi-rad.com/2017/05/but-did-you-really-climb-it/
Comment linking /2017/05/but-did-you-really-climb-it/
on “Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels”Submitted An Illustrated Story About Anxiety as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEpic? http://semi-rad.com/2013/01/everything-is-epic/
Comment linking /2013/01/everything-is-epic/
on “Five reasons why the PHP silence operator @ should be avoided”Submitted Remember When We Were Young? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 9 reasons why you should never bike to work (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do It 14,000 Times Slower with This One Trick as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make 2025 the Year of Maximum Enthusiasm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writers on How Running Helps Them Write as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted But Did You Climb It? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Can Still Listen to “What's Going on” 50 Years Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Praise of the Real Conversation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dawn Wall and the Idea of 'Wasting Time' as a story · 1 points
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