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Cory Dransfeldt
Personal blog · coryd.dev/postswebprogrammingculture
Cory Dransfeldt's personal blog at coryd.dev covers web, programming and culture. Since 2022, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 201 times, most often “Become Worthless (To Tech Companies)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his posts on his music library workflow and on critiques of the tech industry. Commenters cite them as examples in discussions of those topics.
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.
I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I write about software development, technology and music.
Most-linked posts?
- Become Worthless (To Tech Companies)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-09-26
- Expanding My Music Pipeline2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-30
- Turning my reading list into podcasts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-12
- Analyzing the domains (and sites) of an authoritarian regime2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
- I Block Ads (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-08
- The tech industry doesn't deserve optimism it has earned skepticism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-06
- Adblocker Required2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-03
- I removed Tailwind from my site2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-05
- A retrospective on a year without streaming music2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-09
- Cloudflare proposes the Spotify model for the web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-22
What Hacker News says?
Ah, yeah — it was a rough process when I moved my library to it, but I have a rather involved workflow around it https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/expanding-my-music-pipeline
Comment linking /posts/2026/expanding-my-music-pipeline
on “Picard 3.0”Submitted I don't want anything your AI generates as a story · 235 points
HN discussionThey've made a good point, though: when making an argument, don't forget to bring your evidence [0]. [0] Otherwise, you have a list of abstract grievances with maddening uses of "we" and "they" weasel words and zero concrete examples: https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/the-tech-industry-doesnt-deserv...
Comment linking /posts/2024/the-tech-industry-doesnt-deserve-optimism-it-has-earned-skepticism/
on “Wikipedia: How many legs does a horse have?”Submitted I'm going to keep opting out as a story · 124 points
HN discussionAn addendum to https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-block-ads/
Comment linking /posts/2023/i-block-ads/
on “Awesome Adblock”Submitted Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately as a story · 81 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Companies Are Parasites as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Renting your music means accepting that it will disappear as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted I deleted all of my email filters as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delete Your Slack Workspace as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted The internet isn't dying, it's changing as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted We've stopped making things anyone wants as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted I found the music I love on the internet as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search is dead – long live curation as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go ahead and block AI web crawlers as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI-Free Products as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted 403ing AI Crawlers as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Need AI as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data collection should always be opt in as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted All of Apple's services are abysmal as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Intelligence Is Anything But as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signs you've taken a bad job as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goodbye Commercial Social Media as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have a content quality problem, not a content quantity problem as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudflare proposes the Spotify model for the web as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Access to data isn't a grant to exploit it as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's past time to delete your Reddit account as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't be afraid to admit when you don't know something as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a scrobbler using Plex webhooks, edge functions and blob storage as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted All of Apple's services are abysmal as a story · 9 points
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