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Emma Goto

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Emma Goto's personal blog at emgoto.com covers programming and culture. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “My Digital Garden Philosophy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
8HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Emma Goto's personal site, which began as a programming blog and later became mostly about life and hiking, according to one commenter's description.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Japanese-Australian software engineer in Tokyo. Writing about hiking in Japan, coffee, birding, books and anything else that piques my interest.

Most-linked posts?

  1. My Digital Garden Philosophy
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://www.emgoto.com/ Started off as a programming blog, then along the way it turned into more of a life and hiking blog.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  2. Submitted Mt Ontake as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Should you be scared of bears when hiking in Japan? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted A behind-the-scenes look at my blog as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted My Digital Garden Philosophy as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Mountains with a Fuji View as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Four years on a 4-day workweek as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Death of the Author as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted My Digital Garden Philosophy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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