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Dom Corriveau
Personal blog · blog.ctms.me/postscultureproductivity
Dom Corriveau's personal blog at blog.ctms.me covers culture and productivity. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dom Corriveau's blog for posts on being poor versus being broke, and for a post on running a Linux home server that sleeps when idle and wakes on demand.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-02
- /about/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-14
What Hacker News says?
I like this guy’s backstory[0]. I grew up in Africa. The poverty I saw, as a child, was foundational in my own personal development. There are some places in the US, that have that kind of poverty, but I have not seen them, with my own eyes. I have family that dedicated most of their life to fighting poverty (with very limited success). They believe that poverty is probably the single biggest problem in the world, t…
Comment linking /about/
on “Being poor vs. being broke”Submitted Being poor vs. being broke as a story · 585 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.ctms.me/about/ It would appear from the about page and the article that he has the requisite skills to earn an income that should move him out of the "poor" category: - auto mechanic - digital tech - landscaping I'm not trying to dismiss the difficult realities associated with being poor. But if you have the skills to make more money and bring your family out of the "poor" category, why wouldn't you do…
Comment linking /about/
on “Being poor vs. being broke”Submitted This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024) as a story · 366 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-08-29-running-this-blog-on-a... Does a Pixel 5 have wake on Lan? Do any cellphones?
Comment linking /posts/2024-08-29-running-this-blog-on-a-pixel-5/
on “Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)”Submitted I want to be left alone (2024) as a story · 180 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's a Computer? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion