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Colin Devroe
Personal blog · cdevroe.com · on HN as cdevroewritingcultureproductivity
Colin Devroe's personal blog at cdevroe.com covers writing, culture and productivity. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Mastodon's Lead Developer Rails Against Twitter's Bluesky”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on resigning from Twitter and on the Bluesky status, which argue Twitter could decentralize by adding fediverse-style serializers and an inbox endpoint. Commenters cite them in Twitter threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the website's homepage. It can be anything you want it to be. And it can include content galore! I can link to other websites if I'd like to. Make bold words. This file
Most-linked posts?
- Mastodon's Lead Developer Rails Against Twitter's Bluesky2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-26
What Hacker News says?
http://cdevroe.com/2021/10/26/bluesky-status/ love this bit: "The truth is that Twitter could become decentralized almost overnight by simply adding some JSON-LD serializers, an inbox endpoint and maybe tweaking their storage schema slightly to become part of the fediverse – anyone who wouldn’t want to use twitter.com could follow twitter.com users from their own server and so on. That does not require 2 years of ma…
Comment linking /2021/10/26/bluesky-status/
on “I resigned from Twitter”Submitted Why you should never ask permission to clean up code. as a story · 160 points
HN discussionhttps://cdevroe.com/ 20+ years and counting. I have my film photography portfolio there. But I've been blogging (and microblogging) from my own domain forevs.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted How to tear down the walls of your echo chamber as a story · 60 points
HN discussionJust an FYI for anyone still tracking this discussion. Today I released Smart Labels http://cdevroe.com/notes/nilai-smartlabels/
Comment linking /notes/nilai-smartlabels/
on “Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service”Submitted Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI think my point still stands. RMS pragmatically knew that the kernel was the hardest part of his Free OS and built most of the rest of the software first -- and shipped it -- on unFree systems. Linus similarly pragmatically saw that most the odds and ends needed to make an OS useful were done, they just needed a kernel, so he built it and shipped it. Since then? RMS has gotten religion in the worst way and hasn't s…
Comment linking /notes/stallman-email/
on “Interview with Richard Stallman”Submitted Mastodon's Lead Developer Rails Against Twitter's Bluesky as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> There's no reason to believe that Twitter is actually interested in decentralization Bingo! If this was anything more than lip service they'd stop talking about it and just do it. ActivityPub exists and Twitter could play ball within the W3C. shout out to the author of Mastodon, who recently called this out: http://cdevroe.com/2021/10/26/bluesky-status/ "The truth is that Twitter could become decentralized almost…
Comment linking /2021/10/26/bluesky-status/
on “Twitter Crypto”Submitted Please don’t try to explain Bitcoin at parties as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAfter playing Wordle for 90 or so days in a row I got the itch to build my own word game. I began with a simple word scramble, added a few family members, and have iterated on the game until the point you see now. I called it Stupid because I thought it was a stupid word game. Stupid allows for two backspaces and two guesses. Once you burn your guesses you’re done (even if you haven’t used your backspaces yet). It t…
Comment linking /portfolio/stupid-april-2021/
on “Show HN: Stupid – A simple daily word scramble”Submitted How Flickr can eat Instagram’s table scraps. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some of my thoughts on the GitHub investment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signboard 1.5 adds Obsidian integration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 2026 goal is to be bored more often as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Signboard – Kanban app lists are folders and cards are Markdown files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The advantages and disadvantages to feature roll outs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My island on this ocean as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What are your four hobbies? as a story · 1 points
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