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Brennan Kenneth Brown
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Brennan Kenneth Brown's personal blog at brennan.day covers culture and writing. Since 2026, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “The End of Eleventy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on note-taking and personal knowledge management, and on open source politics and digital public goods. The comments mostly dispute his PKM argument rather than praise it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brennan Kenneth Brown is a Queer Métis writer exploring Indigenous identity, digital culture, and creativity. Read essays on technology, craft, and human e…
Most-linked posts?
- The End of Eleventy4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-04
- Creating a Blog in Gemini3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-21
- The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-02
- What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-17
- A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-24
What Hacker News says?
I'll quote a previous article I wrote, as it seems relevant here. A lot has changed over the past decade, and corporate social media now blatantly allows awful, harmful takes in a way that you could only get away with on truth.social or Gab or whatever the fuck years ago. You do not need a tiny, independent platform to say whatever you want, now. A vaccine skeptic is the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.…
Comment linking /free-speech-and-the-indieweb/
on “Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12M Given to DHH”Submitted A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI wish if more SSG could be made digital public goods as well like hugo, eleventty[0] etc. A lot of such products can really benefit from the funding and in some sense, yes one can use these static site generators eternally and use the same version but I do feel like these tools still fall in a digital public good category. From my understanding of digital public good, the process seems to have benefits of UN and ot…
Comment linking /the-end-of-eleventy/
on “Ghost is now a digital public good”Submitted Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12M Given to DHH as a story · 68 points
HN discussionFeom https://brennan.day/what-have-note-taking-pkms-accomplished-... : "German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, as he was famous for his use of the "slip box" or Zettelkasten note-taking method and the achieved output of more than 70 books and nearly 400 scholarly articles. This is the kind of remarkable output that many in the PKM community aspire towards." I think that is somehwhat misguided. The goal shouldn't be grea…
Comment linking /what-have-note-taking-pkms-accomplished-really/
on “Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management”Submitted Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNote Brennan, who wrote the article this one is responding to added an update: https://brennan.day/what-have-note-taking-pkms-accomplished-... Brennan could have gone about a better more interesting route that I would have agreed with more, instead of incorrectly blaming Obsidian and conflating it with a specific PKM framework. I am an avid obsidian user and have avoided most PKM stuff, and instead just developed a…
Comment linking /what-have-note-taking-pkms-accomplished-really/
on “Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management”Submitted A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Write (and Care) About the Internet, and What So Many People Get Wrong as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Letter to Compassionate, Left-Leaning, AI-Hating, Animal-Loving Meat Eaters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homelab for the Beginner: You Can Self-Host Your Own Server on $50 Hardware as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Site Generators for Beginners as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Blog in Gemini as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Person: Enter the Tildeverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Eleventy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Follow-Up: Build Awesome's Kickstarter Is Cancelled as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Eleventy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Blog in Gemini:// as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Blog in Gemini:// as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Mysterious ScreenJesus Can DDoS You as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knitting the Web: We Need Interlinkers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Farming is Why Humanity is Fucked as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Make Your Website Accessible, Anyways? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The IndieWeb Is Wonderfully Dionysian as a story · 1 points
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