Top all-time · #17421
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.
Dan Schnau - Software developer specializing in C#, .NET, SQL Server, and cloud technologies.
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted ChatGPT Is at the Peak of the Hype Cycle as a story · 9 points
HN discussionhttps://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”Submitted You'll Never Do Agile Right as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted What programmers can learn from GMs nightmare as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Identity Protocol improvements in ASP.NET Core 8 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Shouldn't Be a Verb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick intro to vim macros as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted World of Warcraft as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Books I read in 2013 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blog Post: How to Add a Blazor Server App to an Asp.net Model/Controller Web API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A simple application of OAuth: Mastodon's API – Dan Schnau dot com as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted .NET 8 Preview 3: Simplified Output Path Format for Builds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authentication vs. Authorization – Dan Schnau dot com as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working Remote Is Awesome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Link shorteners are fine. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Naming SASS variables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maybe the software industry is maturing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion