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Eli Thorkelson

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Eli Thorkelson writes eli thorkelson: home, a personal blog at decasia.org about programming and culture. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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  1. decasia · 2019-12-02
    I'm a full stack web developer with a PhD in cultural anthropology. Especially interested in building software that fits real human needs and solves real problems. Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Javascript/CSS/HTML (esp. Ember.js), Ruby/Rails, Python, Node, Postgres, Redis, some PHP. Résumé: https://decasia.org/docs/et-tech.pdf Story behind résumé: https://decasia.org/tech.ht…

    Comment linking /tech.html

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)”
  2. decasia · 2026-04-03

    Submitted Bike Safety Rules in Cities as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. decasia · 2018-09-03
    Ha, I independently wrote almost the identical thing (minus bells and whistles) on Friday in a fit of procrastination. So if anyone wants a dark mode for their hacked together javascript timer: https://decasia.org/tools/timer.html

    Comment linking /tools/timer.html

    on “A tour of JavaScript timers on the web”
  4. mikece · 2025-10-21

    Submitted Eli Thorkelson: On Incident Fatigue as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. decasia · 2026-04-05
    Yeah, I just discovered this and was also amazed. https://decasia.org/tech/2026/02/raise-not-a-reserved-word.h... This being said, I don't think there is any requirement technically that every core method can also be re-implemented in Ruby... There are so many methods that are just thin interfaces to something written in C, whether because they are touching VM internals, or for perf reasons, or because they make sys…

    Comment linking /tech/2026/02/raise-not-a-reserved-word.html

    on “Rubysyn: Clarifying Ruby's Syntax and Semantics”
  6. decasia · 2025-03-14

    Submitted The Invisible Layers of the Stack as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. lysace · 2026-07-15

    Submitted Software and softness (The etymology and meaning of the word 'software') as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. decasia · 2024-09-07

    Submitted A Confusing Issue to Debug as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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