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Carl Lange
Personal blog · carl.flax.iewritingculture
Carl Lange's personal blog at carl.flax.ie covers writing and culture. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Do things, tell people (2012)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's post "Do things, tell people", which argues for sharing what you build. HN readers cite it as shorthand for that idea in Show HN and career threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Do things, tell people (2012)6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2012-02-21
What Hacker News says?
That's an extremely dismissive comment. He did something, and is telling people. Good for him. http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
Comment linking /dothingstellpeople.html
on “Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API”Submitted Do things, tell people (2012) as a story · 702 points
HN discussionIn short: "Do things, tell people" http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
Comment linking /dothingstellpeople.html
on “Making what people want isn’t enough, you have to share it”Submitted Do Things, Tell People. as a story · 274 points
HN discussionHey, you did a thing and told people [0]! Good for you. Is it perfect? No idea, but from reading the comments here a lot of people don't think so. Who cares though [1]! You're so far ahead of so many people because you actually did something. Next time maybe all your GETs will be RESTful, maybe not. Either way, you've done a thing, put it out there, and are presumably learning a lot by doing so. Great work. [0] http…
Comment linking /dothingstellpeople.html
on “Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API”Submitted Space isn't ours. as a story · 82 points
HN discussionTitle reminds me of 'Do Things, Tell People' http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
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on “Make Things and Show Them”Submitted Do Things, Tell People as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm 18, and you seem a bit more experienced than me, but here's my advice: find something you're interested in working on and do that. You've already found this — your open source work — and that's great. I spent two summers during highschool working at a physics lab. I understood very little of the physics but learned a huge amount about programming — data collection, shipping, and analysis in particular. I'm sure…
Comment linking /dothingstellpeople.html
on “Ask HN: What should a 16 year old Python hacker looking for "a job" do?”Submitted Do things, tell people (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walking. as a story · 1 points
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