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Chris Wiegman
Personal blog · chriswiegman.comprogrammingcareer
Chris Wiegman's personal blog at chriswiegman.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Hello WordPress, My Old Friend”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about leaving WordPress for a static site built with Hugo. The one comment cites it as an example of a migration rather than judging the writing.
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.
Tech leader, mentor, blogger, and open-source advocate with over 20 years of experience building humane, privacy-focused teams and technology.
Most-linked posts?
- Hello WordPress, My Old Friend3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-02
What Hacker News says?
He migrated his site ot Hugo: https://chriswiegman.com/2024/10/this-site-now-runs-on-hugo/ I can understand WP for non-technical users but I'm still amazed at web dev teams still not using static sites for blogs and marketing sites.
Comment linking /2024/10/this-site-now-runs-on-hugo/
on “So long WordPress”Submitted So long WordPress as a story · 333 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Experience in Testing JetBrains' IDEs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello WordPress, My Old Friend as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Frustration with Tech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello WordPress, My Old Friend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Miss Teaching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Minimal WordPress Theme in the Era of Gutenberg (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dreading the Endless Summer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Regular Blogging – 5 Months Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hello WordPress, My Old Friend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy, Empathy and the Zero-Sum Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
