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Caidan Williams

Personal blog · caidan.dev/blog · on HN as mildmelonprogrammingai

Caidan Williams's personal blog at caidan.dev covers programming and ai. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2026–2026first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this site's portfolio page for an ASCII clouds project, an interactive generator of ASCII-art clouds with adjustable settings. The only comment is a bare link, with no remarks on the writing.

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.

Partner at Internet Development Studio Company in Seattle. I write Swift, Metal, and too much TypeScript. Building Terminal Graph: an infinite canvas for your terminals, editors, and agents.

The author on HN?

mildmelon · 40 karma · member since 2019

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/caidanwilliams; my proof: https://keybase.io/caidanwilliams/sigs/NcqesHF9bUcYyEn2ut4g0DbzdEmnPIuPPpYxwou3LXU ] https://caidan.dev https://internet.dev https://bsky.app/profile/caidan.dev https://x.com/caidanwilliams https://www.threads.com/@ancientsunshine

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What Hacker News says?

  1. sang459 · 2026-01-15
    https://caidan.dev/portfolio/ascii_clouds/?cs=6&wa=0.1&ws=0....

    Comment linking /portfolio/ascii_clouds/?cs=6&wa=0.1&ws=0.72&ni=0.025&vi=0.45&vr=0.665&ba=0.05&ca=0.666&ts=1.2&h=102&sa=0.65&t1=0.168&t2=0.45&t3=0.684&t4=0.658&t5=0.743&sd=rymfes

    on “ASCII Clouds”
  2. majkinetor · 2026-01-14

    Submitted ASCII Clouds as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. mildmelon · 2026-01-15
    Someone just posted a tool I made on my personal site, check it out at https://caidan.dev

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  4. mildmelon · 2026-01-30

    Submitted A Beans Based AI Workflow as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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