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Dark Thoughts
Personal blog · dark.ronacher.eupoliticsculture
Dark Thoughts is a personal blog at dark.ronacher.eu about politics and culture. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on htmx. The one comment describes using htmx on personal blogs to make static pages feel more dynamic, but it praises the tool, not the post's writing.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I would probably not build an actual app with HTMX but I found it to be excellent for just making a completely static page feel more dynamic. I'm using it on my two blogs and it makes the whole experience feel much snappier and allows me to carry through an animation from page to page. The amount of custom stuff I needed to add was minimal (just mostly ensuring that if network is gone, it falls back to native naviga…
Comment linking /
on “Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML”Submitted The Golden Age as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Have Thus I Deserve as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Enough as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Europe Won't Live by Deporting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Others as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
