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Brian Lovin
Personal blog · brianlovin.comdesignwritingcareer
Brian Lovin's personal blog at brianlovin.com covers design, writing and career. Since 2012, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “How My Website Works”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brian Lovin's site for its in-depth write-up on how the website is built and hosted, a practical security checklist, and as a design reference for personal sites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brian Lovin is a software designer living in New York, currently designing AI products at Notion.
Most-linked posts?
- How My Website Works6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-05
- Do a Security Checklist for Your Digital Life3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-25
- The Side Project Prophecy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-15
What Hacker News says?
https://crabl.net/ I've been working on turning my personal website into something more "app-like" (in the same vein as Brian Lovin: https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works ) and earlier this year I settled on a design that I actually don't hate for a change ;)
Comment linking /writing/how-my-website-works
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Reasons you aren't updating your personal site (2020) as a story · 72 points
HN discussionWhy not use https://brianlovin.com/hn/31838049 ?
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on “Twitter Notes”Submitted Do a Security Checklist for Your Digital Life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIs this something to do with Brian Lovin? I see the design of his personal site is a heavy influence, but didn't know it was open sourced? https://brianlovin.com/writing
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on “Let's make the web personal again”Submitted Becoming a Better Interviewer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you haven't seen it, Brian Lovin also has a fantastic, in-depth security checklist on his website that links to many more valuable resources: https://brianlovin.com/security It's aimed more at "the minimum any person should do", so isn't as wide-ranging as the OP and a bit more practical to share with family & friends who might not be as technical.
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on “The Personal Security Checklist”Submitted Incrementally Correct Personal Websites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt looks remarkably (suspiciously) similar to Brian Lovin's website https://brianlovin.com
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on “TypeScript and Set Theory”Submitted How My Website Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://maggieappleton.com/ for her take on a digital garden. She also compiled more below [0] if opening your thought process to the public is your thing (adopting the concept actually got me to add more structure to my serious notes and actually post more) https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works because of how in-depth he went with hosting his notes, bookmarks, and other projects. https://wattenberger.…
Comment linking /writing/how-my-website-works
on “Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?”Submitted My playbook for shipping side projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works
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on “Reasons you aren't updating your personal site (2020)”Submitted Use the Hyper Key as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- https://satyrs.eu/ - https://brainbaking.com/ - https://brianlovin.com/ - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - https://css-irl.info/ - https://protesilaos.com/ - https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/ - https://publicdomainreview.org/ And, more for content than design (though I do like the look) - https://www.newyorker.com/ - https://www.theparisreview.org/ - https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
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on “Ask HN: What websites are you inspired by?”Submitted Omarchy First Impressions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Side Project Prophecy (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How My Website Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Side Project Prophecy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the New Brianlovin.com Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Checklist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A primer on investing for designers and developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Politics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology in the Classroom as a story · 1 points
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