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drossbucket is a personal blog at drossbucket.com about programming and philosophy. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Folk wisdom on visual programming”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for essays on drawing as a programming language and on metarationality, including a post on Hacker News folk wisdom. Comments are brief links to these posts.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Folk wisdom on visual programming
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. relevant? https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-o...

    Comment linking /2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/

    on “λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language”
  2. Submitted Folk wisdom on visual programming as a story · 266 points

    HN discussion
  3. abss · 2021-06-06Recommends
    Another good introduction: https://drossbucket.com/2017/09/30/metarationality-a-messy-i...

    Comment linking /2017/09/30/metarationality-a-messy-introduction/

    on “A first lesson in meta-rationality”
  4. Submitted Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming (2021) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Cognitive Decoupling and Banana Phones as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Folk wisdom on visual programming (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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