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Dan Schnau

Personal blog · danschnau.com · on HN as dsschnauprogrammingweb

Dan Schnau's personal blog at danschnau.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2014

Dan Schnau - Software developer specializing in C#, .NET, SQL Server, and cloud technologies.

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dsschnau · 114 karma · member since 2012

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  1. I went through exactly this with World of Warcraft, and later StarCraft. I wanted to go pro playing SC but I realized it wasn't sustainable or as fulfilling as I had hoped. I ended up just giving them up, once I realized it wasn't really building towards anything in my life. It felt like a big loss, but looking back, I wish I hadn't played so damn much in the first place. I wrote more about it here. https://danschna…

    Comment linking /world-of-warcraft/

    on “Ask HN: Dilemma of a Gamer and Programmer”
  2. Submitted ChatGPT Is at the Peak of the Hype Cycle as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://danschnau.com is my home-grown asp.net cms and i'm proud of it

    Comment linking /

    on “How to Start Your Blog in 2023”
  4. Submitted You'll Never Do Agile Right as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted What programmers can learn from GMs nightmare as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Identity Protocol improvements in ASP.NET Core 8 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Google Shouldn't Be a Verb as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A quick intro to vim macros as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted World of Warcraft as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Books I read in 2013 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Blog Post: How to Add a Blazor Server App to an Asp.net Model/Controller Web API as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted A simple application of OAuth: Mastodon's API – Dan Schnau dot com as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted .NET 8 Preview 3: Simplified Output Path Format for Builds as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Authentication vs. Authorization – Dan Schnau dot com as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Working Remote Is Awesome as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Link shorteners are fine. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Naming SASS variables as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Maybe the software industry is maturing? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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