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Craig Russell

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Craig Russell's personal blog at craig-russell.co.uk covers programming and writing. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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3HN people?
2010–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Craig Russell's site for What the Hex, a guess-the-colour game. One commenter pointed out that an Android port of the game also exists.

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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. There's an Android port too. http://www.craig-russell.co.uk/android-game-what-the-hex/

    Comment linking /android-game-what-the-hex/

    on “What the Hex? Guess the color.”
  2. Submitted We need more optimistic science fiction as a story · 141 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Using Google Refine to Clean a Data Set as a story · 69 points

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  4. Submitted Creative Writing in Visual Studio Code as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted Bang Bang (!!) as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Living in Uncertainty as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted All APIs are Web APIs, everything else is Bullshit as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Top 5 Shell Commands for Working with Data Files as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Argue for SEO if you can't argue for Open Data as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Three Essentials for a Modern Web Publishing Architecture as a story · 1 points

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