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Chris Hardie

Personal blog · chrishardie.com · on HN as ChrisHardiewebwriting

Chris Hardie's personal blog at chrishardie.com covers web and writing. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a 2017 post on using WordPress to build a private personal website, offered as a way to replace Facebook. The only comment cites a coworker's post on the same idea.

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.

Journalist, newspaper publisher and software developer working on the intersections of journalism, technology, local news and civic engagement.

The author on HN?

ChrisHardie · 205 karma · member since 2013

https://chrishardie.com/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. aheckler · 2018-12-20
    One of my coworkers wrote a blog post on how he used WordPress to do this: https://chrishardie.com/2017/03/wordpress-private-website/

    Comment linking /2017/03/wordpress-private-website/

    on “We should replace Facebook with personal websites”
  2. ChrisHardie · 2018-04-23

    Submitted Bringing people back to the open web as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  3. ChrisHardie · 2020-06-21
    I wrote about trying to do this for Facebook page events as an example. Code sample included: https://chrishardie.com/2019/10/unlocking-community-events-f...

    Comment linking /2019/10/unlocking-community-events-facebook/

    on “RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS”
  4. Estragon · 2013-05-20

    Submitted Margins on website development are shrinking as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  5. ChrisHardie · 2019-02-20

    Submitted A Tool for Moving Your Photos from Flickr to WordPress as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. ChrisHardie · 2016-12-16

    Submitted Beyond Tweetstorming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. ChrisHardie · 2020-02-24

    Submitted Why are you giving social media companies free marketing? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. ChrisHardie · 2020-02-24

    Submitted Show HN: Tools for Moving from Flickr to WordPress as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. ChrisHardie · 2019-10-08

    Submitted Unlocking community event information from Facebook as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. ChrisHardie · 2018-05-30

    Submitted Scoring sites on their commitment to the open web? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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