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Personal blog · combo.cc/posts · on HN as sphprogrammingweb

combo is a personal blog at combo.cc about programming and web. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Community”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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sph · 33,678 karma · member since 2011

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. (define email (concat username (unicode->string "COMMERCIAL AT") "combo.cc"))

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  1. Community
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. sph · 2024-01-30
    PSA for people that believe they are somewhat smart, have cool ideas yet seemingly no power whatsoever to actually work on them. If you believe you are chronically lazy and feel it is causing issues in your life. If you feel you are living at 10% your true potential: Get tested for ADHD. If that is your problem, know that the chemical fix for it is extremely effective. It's taken me 30+ years of self-hate, a suggest…

    Comment linking /adhd/

    on “How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent”
  2. sph · 2025-12-18

    Submitted It's all about momentum as a story · 111 points

    HN discussion
  3. 1_player · 2015-03-01
    SEEKING WORK - Remote - London, UK Full stack engineer, Linux administrator with a passion for concurrent backend systems. Fast learner, eager to work on new tech and hard problems. SKILLS: C, Golang, Python, AngularJS, React, MySQL DBA, Django, PHP, Docker, OS tuning, security. CONTACT: steph (at) combo.cc RESUME: http://combo.cc/pages/resume.html LINKEDIN: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/stravostino

    Comment linking /pages/resume.html

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015)”
  4. keepamovin · 2025-05-14

    Submitted Fixing trackpad scrolling speed on Firefox Linux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. sph · 2023-05-01
    SEEKING WORK (CONTRACT) Location: London, UK. Remote: yes. Senior software engineer with 17 years of experience, offering my knowledge as consulting CTO, on infrastructure design, systems administration, application development and maintenance (Elixir, Rust, Python, Go) Email: <username>@combo.cc Website: https://combo.cc You're welcome to book a 30 minutes call with me—free of charge!—to discuss your business and a…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2023)”
  6. sph · 2024-04-14

    Submitted Community as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. sph · 2023-11-08
    Excellent list of articles. I suggest people to look more into the author's CollapseOS, their research into a post-collapse minimal operating system to bootstrap computing anew. OSDev is such a fascinating and lost topic, due to how niche it is and how computers and hardware have become a complicated mass of abstractions only a few have full access to. Writing a OS that talks with 90% of your hardware is relatively…

    Comment linking /posts/what-i-would-like-to-see-in-a-modern-vm/

    on “Tumble Forth”
  8. flyaway123 · 2024-08-19

    Submitted The Firehose as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. computersuck · 2025-12-18

    Submitted Community as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. sph · 2023-12-03

    Submitted The unreasonable UX of email verification as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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