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Brent Laabs
Personal blog · blog.brentlaabs.comprogrammingculture
Brent Laabs writes Irregular Expression, a personal blog at blog.brentlaabs.com about programming and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Edge of the Creative Commons (2013)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment links to a write-up on the copyright situation around Creative Commons, with an earlier HN discussion of it. The same comment says the blog has no ads.
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.
Brent Laabs on programming and culture
Most-linked posts?
- Edge of the Creative Commons (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-15
What Hacker News says?
I'm not sure how you would have gotten that impression with the 100% lack of ads. Aggressive adblockers, I can only hope. Either way, brand-name attraction is strong. If you'd like to be a little more familiar with the situation, there's a write-up of the copyright situation here: http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-comm... with HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749189 There's a…
Comment linking /2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-commons.html
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?”Submitted Three Tales of Second System Syndrome as a story · 207 points
HN discussionSubmitted Edge of the Creative Commons (2013) as a story · 172 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to start hacking on Rakudo Perl 6 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion