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Dan Quach
Personal blog · dquach.comculturewriting
Dan Quach's personal blog at dquach.com covers culture and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a first-person account of hiking the 75km (48 mile) West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, including the author's backpacking and thru-hiking gear.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q1/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-24
What Hacker News says?
https://www.dquach.com/ A scattering of personal newsletters, tech, and data engineering. For the personal newsletters that involve traveling, what I do is journal every day while I am in the destination country, and then when I'm at home, begin writing. Each travel post takes about 40 hours of writing, editing, and picture selection. For the travel posts, I try not to rehash a history of a place (you probably could…
Comment linking /2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q1/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted The Unexpected $30k Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYea what you are doing sounds like reference class forecasting (shameless plug, a blog post I wrote about it) https://www.dquach.com/2023/04/21/reference-class-forecastin...
Comment linking /2023/04/21/reference-class-forecasting/
on “Software effort estimation is mostly fake research”Submitted Rest in Peace Dad as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe author is a first-time thru-hiker, not first-time backpacker. "I have done a lot of hiking, and cool trips, but never thru-hiking." and "upgrading all of my gear" indicate previous experience backpacking. The line "I remember buying cascade hiking poles from Costco, and it breaking in the middle of hiking of Peru" may been an event which occurred after this hike, but a search of the site finds https://www.dquach…
Comment linking /2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q1/
on “West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island”Submitted Vietnam as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accurate Predictions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island as a story · 1 points
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