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Cube Drone
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Cube Drone is a personal blog at cube-drone.com about programming and culture. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cube Drone's webcomics as jokes and as related takes on tech topics, including startups, JavaScript toolchains, steganography and Kubernetes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Elderly Vancouver software developer; lead backend developer at VRChat, strange thing creator, putatively considered to be responsible for all this.
Most-linked posts?
- JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-07-09
What Hacker News says?
On, on a far snarkier take on it: http://cube-drone.com/comics/c/relentless-persistence
Comment linking /comics/c/relentless-persistence
on “Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter”Submitted JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately as a story · 213 points
HN discussionAssuming I get him correctly, that's bad sarcasm. I'd recommend instead this joke on JavaScript toolchain: http://cube-drone.com/comics/c/relentless-persistence Compilers are huge beasts, but good ones are worthwhile, and Dotty is a better Scala compiler, so this criticism seems misdirected.
Comment linking /comics/c/relentless-persistence
on “Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala”Submitted You are given access to 2 eggs and a 100 story building as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is an interesting concept but this implementation seems rather inefficient. It should be possible to exploit spacing, punctuation and case more effectively. Related web comic with a similar idea: http://cube-drone.com/2013_06_05-Cube_Drone_37_The_Often_Ins...
Comment linking /2013_06_05-Cube_Drone_37_The_Often_Inscrutable_Motivation_Of_Programmers.html
on “SpamMimic: encode your message into something innocent-looking”Submitted Are singletons really this bad? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSchematic: http://cube-drone.com/comics/c/alien-geometries
Comment linking /comics/c/alien-geometries
on “Try Kubernetes with Vagrant”Submitted Pretty Big Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hiring Protocol as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infinite Velocity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An incredibly elaborate revenge plot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software developers in my office are prone to terrible internet-of-things ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Vital Message from Dev-Ops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Relentless Persistence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Purely Functional Conference as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Open Letter to JetBrains as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trend Chasing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privilege Escalation via Invisible Touch as a story · 1 points
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