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Caleb Jay Rogers
Personal blog · blog.calebjay.com · on HN as komali2programmingproductivity
Caleb Jay Rogers writes Caleb's Blog, a personal blog at blog.calebjay.com about programming and productivity. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
The personal blog of Caleb Jay Rogers, Software Engineer
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Choose peace or violence. Violence doesn't have to mean physical destruction or harm, it can mean self psychological harm as you put aside your comfort to further a goal or your values. Peace is a perfectly valid option for people to pick. If they can master it, they can weather any depredation the world throws at them. Which may be many if society continues to slip slide into fascism. However I believe most good th…
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on “VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project”Submitted Don't Download Apps as a story · 425 points
HN discussionI envy your level of emacs knowledge! I did a lot of things in it, but not as many as you: https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/my-emacs-environment/ I really wish I had finished my blog post I'm working on right now about my new life stack that no longer involves emacs, it'd contain all the info I'd like to convey here. Looking at your list, I guess what it came to for me is that getting an excellent UX for any one of t…
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on “Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs”Submitted How I Write Code, Track Time and Tasks, Take Notes, and Stay Organized in Emacs as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIn Taiwan they mix "positive" and "negative" indication signs. So for example, you'll see a sign indicating cars are OK for a freeway. That means, heavy motorcycles and scooters are NOT ok. You can only take your heavy motorcycle on it if it also has a heavy motorcycle sign. But SOMETIMES they'll use the slightly different motorcycle sign which means scooters ok. Well, if it's ok for scooters, it must be ok for heav…
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on “StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta”Submitted It's Time to Back Up Your Google Maps Location History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRight now I'm using wordpress installed on a bluehost server, which I uh... have a google domain... pointing to? I'm using this as an opportunity to learn about all this so I have trouble speaking intelligently about it. It's http://blog.calebjay.com/ - I forgot I actually have the blog set as a subdomain, not an endpoint. It's been a couple months since I've done anything with it... man, it even still has the blueh…
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on “Ten years of professional blogging – what I’ve learned”Submitted I Wrote an Emacs Color Theme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDamn, that guy busted his butt. I got a creative writing degree from a decent but relatively unheard of Texas state school, spent a month studying Javascript, got into a bootcamp, worked for the bootcamp as TA for 3 months, then got a ~120k/yr job in the bay area within a month of leaving the bootcamp. I had 3 projects on my resume and absolutely nothing technical to show for the time period prior to the bootcamp, o…
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on “How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree”Submitted Yes, AI Will Take Your Job as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI only recently feel like I've "gotten" Emacs, to the point where I'm confident enough to tell others about my setup [1], but in the process of doing so I've realized I have so much more built-ins that I've barely touched. Like, dired. Magit, I've only skimmed the surface of. Hilariously, I only learned about apropos last week! For some reason though I gain great enjoyment from tweaking my Emacs environment (I even…
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on “The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy”Submitted Stuff You Gotta Do as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow many applications have you sent? Oh average I send 250 applications in a job hunt to get about three offers, two of which are for positions I actually want. It's my opinion that in general people don't have a proper expectation for the volume of applications necessary to find a good fitting job. Or dating to find a good partner, for that matter. Many of my friends often "settle" for the first company that gives…
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on “Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?”Submitted In Defense of Pen and Paper as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI guess it could be considered arrogant to talk about making lots of money, but in this specific instance, given that the author shares so much information, it's far more valuable than braggardly. To be considered braggardly would mean that we accept a capitalist definition of value and worth being how much money someone earns or makes. That means that we accept both that the market efficiently rewards societal cont…
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on “Farewell, Building in Public”Yeah np, I go into the writing and journaling here https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/in-defense-of-pen-and-paper/ And more detail about the daily reflection activity here: https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/my-new-life-stack/#journal However I'm back on emacs lol, but basically I still do the same flow in emacs that I was doing in trilium. Dotfile: https://github.com/komali2/Configs/blob/master/emacs/.spacem... Anki I ha…
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on “It's time to talk about my writerdeck”> Who are we to say what is the right or wrong thing to focus on? Just observers pointing out that her stated goal was "to write more." If she uses the writerdeck as-is for a couple years, then, she was one of those rare people that discovered an actual single structural obstacle that stood between her and her goal, and then solved it in one fell swoop. As an ADHD guy, I completely understand the cycle: have a thing…
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on “It's time to talk about my writerdeck”https://blog.calebjay.com Travel, life (in Taiwan), programming (especially my journey from a coding bootcamp to a relatively successful software engineering career for 6 years now), philosophy, motorcycling, digital nomad stuff Has RSS feed: https://blog.calebjay.com/index.xml Some posts that might interest you: * A breakdown of all the best and worst snacks at 7-11 Taiwan, as decided at a party where we tested a s…
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
