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Elliot Bonneville
Personal blog · elliotbonneville.com · on HN as elliotbnvlprogrammingstartupsbusiness
Elliot Bonneville's personal blog at elliotbonneville.com covers programming, startups and business. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Building a Blog from Scratch in 90 Minutes with 233 LOC”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link elliotbonneville.com for posts about building a personal blog in 90 minutes and an essay, 'Programmers Aren't People', on programmers and AI. Comments mostly point 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.
A minimal coding blog
Most-linked posts?
- Building a Blog from Scratch in 90 Minutes with 233 LOC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-19
What Hacker News says?
Location: Providence, Rhode Island. Remote: I have worked remotely for six years -- yes. Willing to relocate: no. Technologies: modern full stack development and design -- React, Redux, MobX, Next.js, Gatsby, Node.js, SEO, copywriting, email campaigns, AWS, Firebase, Sketch, Figma, Mailchimp. Résumé/CV: Please email me and I'll send it over! Email: elliot.bonneville@gmail.com I'm a marketing consultant and full-stac…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)”Submitted How to Find a SaaS Idea as a story · 132 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK Based in Providence, RI. Only looking to work remotely at this time. Résumé/CV: https://elliotbonneville.com/resume Blog: https://elliotbonneville.com StackOverflow profile (40k+ reputation, ~600 questions answered): https://stackoverflow.com/users/339852/elliot-bonneville I'm a senior-level JavaScript / React / front-end engineer with six years of experience developing complex web apps for startups. Ov…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)”Submitted I'm building a SaaS for just one person as a story · 126 points
HN discussionLocation: Providence, RI (Boston area) ️Remote: Yes, but happy to visit Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full stack web development, front-end leaning: TypeScript, React, Redux, Node, Docker, GH Actions, Terraform, CircleCI Email: elliot.bonneville@gmail.com Résumé/CV: https://elliotbonneville.com/resume Blog: https://elliotbonneville.com StackOverflow profile (40k+ reputation, ~600 questions answered): https:/…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020)”Submitted Failed SaaS post-mortem: validate your pricing model like I didn't as a story · 123 points
HN discussionLocation: Providence, RI (Boston area) ️Remote: Yes, but happy to visit Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full stack web development, front-end leaning: TypeScript, React, Redux, Node, Docker, GH Actions, Terraform, CircleCI Email: elliot.bonneville@gmail.com Résumé/CV: https://elliotbonneville.com/resume Blog: https://elliotbonneville.com StackOverflow profile (40k+ reputation, ~600 questions answered): https:/…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)”Submitted The Only Moat Left Is Money as a story · 58 points
HN discussionI thought your blog sofware was interesting, and you have a blog on it from last year. The Git link on this page: https://elliotbonneville.com/building-a-blog-in-90-minutes/ however, is broken. Broken Git link: https://github.com/elliotbonneville/elliotbonneville.com
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on “The Only Moat Left Is Money”Submitted Like the Phoenix: The Discipline of Becoming (SaaS Adventure) as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI’ve been doing this for a while [1], but ultimately settled on a building a thin transport layer for Telegram to accept and return media, and persistent channels, vastly improved messaging UX, etc. and ended up turning this into a ‘claw with a heartbeat and SOUL [2]. [1] https://elliotbonneville.com/phone-to-mac-persistent-termina... [2] https://elliotbonneville.com/claude-code-is-all-you-need/
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on “Claude Code Remote Control”Submitted Show HN: I built a roguelike game with Redux and learned some stuff as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://elliotbonneville.com/about/ "I work at NVIDIA during the day as a software engineer, and fiddle with AI for fun on the side" Every single time. This article is concern trolling or advertisement trolling. I hope Nvidia's stock goes up due to the AI assisted existential crisis thoughts of this programmer.
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on “Programmers Aren't People”Submitted Building a Blog from Scratch in 90 Minutes with 233 LOC as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apparently you can make multiple Twitter accounts with the same email address as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programmers Aren't People as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It Ought to Be a Pull Door as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bareclaw: Claude Code Is All You Need as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of the Greate Liberation of Websytes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I know La Cello's bucatini is suspended by the FDA for being 2.1mg short... as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned about startups by beating a roguelike as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unsolicited Advice To My Younger Self as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I'm doing the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge again – here are my plans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Iterate on the Plan, Not the Product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bareclaw: Claude Code Is All You Need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The OpenClawification of the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seamless Claude Code Handoff: SSH from Your Phone with Tmux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seamless Claude Code Handoff: SSH from Your Phone with Tmux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Work Is No Longer Linear as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Stopped Posting Daily as a story · 1 points
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