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Deepak Gulati
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Deepak Gulati's personal blog at deepakg.com covers programming and design. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The linked posts cover the story behind a well-known IKEA photo of an Amsterdam canal, including a documentary video and the location and houseboat name. One commenter points to the location post.
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What Hacker News says?
Please watch the video rather than just reading the article (there's much more material in the documentary). Actually, the video made me cry a little bit. After watching the video, I found https://www.deepakg.com/the-canal-in-ikeas-amsterdam-photo which gives the location and the name of the houseboat. (If you want to see it in Google Street View, a better search is probably Brouwersgracht 56.)
Comment linking /the-canal-in-ikeas-amsterdam-photo
on “The Story Behind the IKEA Photo of Amsterdam”Submitted Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAh repper reminds of the "kalidoscope" effect in Pixelmator: https://www.deepakg.com/kaleidoscopic-dutch-houses Will play with them. Thank you for sharing.
Comment linking /kaleidoscopic-dutch-houses
on “Bringing 19th century ornamental tile illustrations into a 21st century web app”Submitted Using emacs with org-mode to keep yourself organized as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mosaic patterns of Lisbon's public squares on Google Earth as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Visualising the men's 100m Olympic champions with D3.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Chrome Developer Tools Protocol for fun and profit (ok mostly fun) as a story · 1 points
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