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Watts Martin
Personal blog · coyotetracks.org/blogcareerdesignai
Watts Martin writes Coyote Tracks, a personal blog at coyotetracks.org about career, design and ai. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Is AI helping you to do work, or just to do stuff?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal site as an example of minimalist HTML/CSS design with accent colours and custom fonts. Other links point to a Medium/Wayback Machine thread, a novel for sale and a technical writer résumé.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Is AI helping you to do work, or just to do stuff?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
What Hacker News says?
> most users actually prefer visually fancier content with pictures and colors. You're aware that pure HTML and CSS alone can produce visually fancy content with pictures and colors, right? It honestly seems like a lot of web developers are starting to forget this, but it's true, I swear. My personal web site ( https://coyotetracks.org/ ) is minimalist by design, but it has accent colors, custom fonts, Retina-ready…
Comment linking /
on “I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx”Submitted I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSure. The novel is Kismet, which is at the top of this page: https://coyotetracks.org/for-sale/ And, a direct link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Kismet-Watts-Martin-ebook/dp/B01MY02O...
Comment linking /for-sale/
on “Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?”Submitted What makes an app feel "right" on the Mac? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTechnical Writer Location: Tampa Bay, FL Remote: Yes (preferred, within US time zones) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Markdown, Git/GitHub, various static site generators and template engines, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL and key/value databases Résumé: https://coyotetracks.org/Watts_Martin_Resume_2024.pdf Email: wattsm@mac.com Technical writer with extensive experience creating and maintaining web-based, developer…
Comment linking /Watts_Martin_Resume_2024.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)”Submitted If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AI helping you to do work, or just to do stuff? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AI helping you to do work, or just to do stuff? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Judge the AI that exists, not the AI you imagine as a story · 1 points
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