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Cassidy James
Personal blog · cassidyjames.com/blogprogrammingdesign
Cassidy James's personal blog at cassidyjames.com covers programming and design. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Mastodon-powered Blog Comments for static Jekyll sites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cassidy James's posts on showing Mastodon replies as comments on a static blog, plus a GNOME foot logo rebrand post and a guide to replacing Simple Bank.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Building open communities and useful, usable tech for good.
Most-linked posts?
- Mastodon-powered Blog Comments for static Jekyll sites2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-07-06
- Farewell, Elementary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-01
- GNOME working on support for proposed Freedesktop accent colours2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-27
What Hacker News says?
I like Cassidy James' idea of linking a blog post to a Mastodon post[1], and showing the corresponding social interactions as a comments section at the bottom of the post. All static site client-side! 1. https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastod...
Comment linking /blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastodon/
on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Farewell, Elementary as a story · 164 points
HN discussionSee also: Toot toot! Mastodon-powered Blog Comments [2023] https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastod...
Comment linking /blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastodon/
on “Building Bluesky comments for my blog”Submitted Farewell, Elementary as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWell Cassidy, one of the ElementaryOS founders worked on Pop!_OS too and I haven't tried it, but I'd hope that it therefore has some of his UX pizzaz! https://cassidyjames.com/resume/ Having used ElementaryOS for two years I had thought that if my next laptop was a System76 I'd give Pop a go. I do hope they become the Mac of Linux.
Comment linking /resume/
on “System76 News: Coreboot and Linux Advances”Submitted Mastodon-powered Blog Comments for static Jekyll sites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInterestingly this is a big topic https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement(2f)FootAndCulturalIssue.ht... https://cassidyjames.com/blog/gnome-foot-logo-rebrand/ > It is actively off-putting and unappealing to at least some folks including much of the GNOME design team, newer contributors, people outside the open source bubble—and apparently potentially entire cultures (which has been raised multiple times over the past 20+…
Comment linking /blog/gnome-foot-logo-rebrand/
on “Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play”Submitted GNOME working on support for proposed Freedesktop accent colours as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a novel solution to use Mastodon/Fediverse replies as a comment section on a statically-generated blog. https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastod...
Comment linking /blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastodon/
on “Wordpress.com Now Supports ActivityPub”Submitted Accent Colors: A Proposal for Gnome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThanks to @CassidyJames for the comprehensive blog post[1] documenting good online banking alternatives. It's sad to see Simple go. Hopefully this sheet will be helpful to someone else. 1. https://cassidyjames.com/blog/replacing-simple-bank/
Comment linking /blog/replacing-simple-bank/
on “Show HN: A spreadsheet to compare and suggest replacements to Simple Bank”