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Chris Johnson
Personal blog · cjohnson.iopoliticscultureweb
Chris Johnson's personal blog at cjohnson.io covers politics, culture and web. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover Bay Area residents' use of Uber and Lyft and a 2014 post about Tesla. Comments cite or link them without judging the writing, and one uses the Tesla post in a Solar Roadways thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web platform engineer. 15+ years building for Twitch, Urbit, PayIt, and more. Kansas City.
Most-linked posts?
- Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-06-12
What Hacker News says?
From another article on the front page of HN today[1]: " I believe our unfortunate heritage with capitalism, and our steadily decreasing trust in other Americans, is exactly how we end up with these intractable tragedy of the commons-type situations, where no individual party is willing to be vulnerable enough to move toward cooperative solutions in lieu of safe, selfish solutions. The longer this cultural feedback…
Comment linking /2014/tesla
on “SF people, you are hypocrites using services like Uber and Lyft”Submitted Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism as a story · 480 points
HN discussionLocation: Kansas City, MO, USA -- but 100% enthusiastic about relocation Remote: Sure, but hybrid/in-office roles are fine Willing to relocate: Yes! Technologies: React, Typescript, Ruby/Rails, Node.js/express -- any modern web application framework is easily within my wheelhouse, especially in the LLM era. Resume: https://cjohnson.io/assets/files/resume.pdf Email: chris@cjohnson.io
Comment linking /assets/files/resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)”Submitted Context in the Information Age (The first Internet president?) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThat's the defeatist spirit! http://cjohnson.io/2014/tesla
Comment linking /2014/tesla
on “Hard Road Ahead for Solar Freakin’ Roadways”Submitted An introduction to civics in the 21st century as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear as a story · 2 points
HN discussion