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Brian Schrader
Personal blog · brianschrader.com/archive · on HN as sonicrocketmanprogrammingwriting
Brian Schrader writes BiteofanApple, a personal blog at brianschrader.com about programming and writing. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 108 times, most often “Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Brian Schrader's personal tech blog is valued enough that one commenter included it in a list of suggested blogs curated for a newsletter. Comments say nothing about specific posts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
- Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Hi, I come across a lot of blogs when I curate for my newsletter Interesting Things [1]. Just looking through the links that have been curated in the past month or so, I would suggest: Tech - https://wasteofserver.com/ - https://tonsky.me/ - https://brianschrader.com/ - https://blog.thea.codes/ - https://fasterthanli.me/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://blog.royalsloth.eu/ Non-tech - https://www.drorpoleg.com/ - About w…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk as a story · 1345 points
HN discussionHey all! I'm an indie ios/web developer and I build Hewell (pronounced the same as Huell (and a reference maybe some of you old-school PBS viewers may get). I've wanted an app like this for a long time, but most travel guide apps have really high production values and consequently low coverage. Lots of apps can give you a bespoke experience in San Francisco, but few work well everywhere (custom voice over is expensi…
Comment linking /archive/announcing-hewell-public-beta-/
on “Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData”Submitted YouTube has apparently reinstated RSS feeds as a story · 224 points
HN discussionI've blogged about this before too! https://brianschrader.com/archive/the-practicals-of-writing-... But I'm in the process of upgrading my pen. I ordered a TWISB ECO.
Comment linking /archive/the-practicals-of-writing-paper-and-pens/
on “Take Better Notes, by Hand”Submitted Python 3.5 and Multitasking as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI wrote a thing about a related idea nearly a decade later (2022) and it still holds. Email is great. https://brianschrader.com/archive/on-the-web-the-best-outcom...
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on “Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet (2014)”Submitted Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On as a story · 66 points
HN discussionHey all! I make Nine9s (and other things). As of this release, Nine9s -- an uptime monitoring service -- can no monitor a lot more than just web services. Your servers can send data to Nine9s and you can configure criteria to judge what the data sent says about your server's health. Think of a cron job that reports disk usage. You can tell Nine9s to alert you when your disk usage percentage goes above 90%. There's a…
Comment linking /archive/nine9s-gets-an-upgrade-/
on “Show HN: Nine9s Can Now Monitor Disk Usage, Memory and More”Submitted On Handwriting and Switching to Cursive as a story · 58 points
HN discussionDeveloper here! Nine9s is a service providing simple, no-fuss uptime monitoring for developers on a budget. If you're in the market for inexpensive, but powerful, Uptime Monitoring, then please check out Nine9s. It's got text message, email, and Webhook alerts and a full REST API. Announcement Blog Post: https://brianschrader.com/ Product Roadmap: https://nine9s.cloud/kb/feature-roadmap Nine9s and the Environment: h…
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on “Show HN: Nine9s: No-fuss uptime monitoring for developers”Submitted A Hidden Git Feature: Notes as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacks can be good code too as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing Style: Writing Cursive Two Years In as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Take Better Notes, by Hand as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Don't Retweet Anything as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Web, the Best Outcome Is Email (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trapped in the Infinite Honey Pot as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Practicals of Writing: Paper and Pens as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Medieval Origin of the PhD Dissertation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Field Guide to Learning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experts in the Internet Age: The Power of Email as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running and Securing Servers: A Concise Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Joys of Playing Live Music as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Last Year I Started Reading a Physical Newspaper as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imports Are Endorsements as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Love NSOperation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blogging has an Image Problem as a story · 3 points
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