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Daniel Immke
Personal blog · daniel.do/article · on HN as dimmkewebprogrammingcareer
Daniel Immke's personal blog at daniel.do covers web, programming and career. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
One HN commenter links Daniel Immke's post about laying himself off from Amazon as an example of the common pattern of complaining about internal tooling such as devenv.
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.
Daniel Immke is a software engineer and designer.
Most-linked posts?
- The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-06
- It's the future – you can stop using JPEGs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-19
- Laying myself off from Amazon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-16
What Hacker News says?
I recently implemented layers on my site https://daniel.do/ and honestly found it really helpful in terms of explicitly organizing specificity. It also gives you a much clearer idea of where in your styling stack something is coming from. > Container queries Have you ever built a piece of functionality that goes on pages you don't control? For instance, I built software that displayed a map on people's pages. but I…
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on “State of CSS”Submitted Laying myself off from Amazon as a story · 394 points
HN discussionI have a personal site https://daniel.do that I don’t write on frequently. It’s mostly because when I am motivated to write a post it’s about something that’s a really big deal in my life or something that took a long time. Like I wrote a post about being a software engineer at the CDC when COVID hit and more recently about becoming a digital nomad. My blog is not for job opportunities/professional purpose. My resum…
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on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”Submitted The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok as a story · 149 points
HN discussionSee I don’t understand this argument. I wrote a blog post about this recently where I discuss this at length. But are MFi cables overpriced? It doesn’t seem to be the case. https://daniel.do/article/chromes-manifest-v3-foibles/ (scroll down to the section that says aside as the main post is about something else)
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on “EU Warns Apple About Limiting Speeds of Uncertified USB-C Cables”Submitted Making Noisy SVGs as a story · 17 points
HN discussionAwesome resource! I wrote a blog post just last week that is very similar in nature to this, but about achieving a specific effect in SVGs: https://daniel.do/article/making-noisy-svgs/
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on “Learn SVG with 25 examples – How to code images in HTML”Submitted What it’s like open sourcing software written for the federal government as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://daniel.do/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted One job, if you please as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis was an extreme example, there are many more subtle variants of this usually complaining about devenv or some other tooling. Here’s one making front page recently: https://daniel.do/article/laying-myself-off-from-amazon/ And hey sometimes they have a valid point but yeah usually they will feel out management about it and if it works you’re going to hear about it non-stop
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on “Habits of Highly Overrated People (2014)”Submitted My favorite thing to do with AI doesn't have a label as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have written two blog posts that sort touch on this subject. The increase in screen pixel density has had a much larger impact on web design as a discipline than is commonly acknowledged. https://daniel.do/article/making-noisy-svgs/ (I link to the second post in the first paragraph)
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on “Why Do Everyone's Logo Fonts Look the Same?”Submitted It's the future – you can stop using JPEGs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Simple starter kit to build Pardot landing pages easier as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My favorite thing to do with AI doesn't have a label as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Using JPEGs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TikTok: Stop Copying the Wrong Parts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned on native iOS app building from a web developer as a story · 1 points
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