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Everett Bogue
Personal blog · evbogue.com · on HN as evboguewritingcultureprogramming
Everett Bogue's personal blog at evbogue.com covers writing, culture and programming. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The web you know is dying”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on distributed web tools, a Mastodon explainer, and a 'haters' piece about the difficulty of deploying Node.js. One comment notes the site was down.
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.
Augmented publishing from Everett Bogue.
Most-linked posts?
- The web you know is dying2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-04
What Hacker News says?
Amusingly, as I'm typing this, the author's site is down: http://evbogue.com/
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on “Distributed Everything”Submitted The web you know is dying as a story · 115 points
HN discussionA cursory search on Google yields four results pertaining to the "confediverse". Being such a niche I wonder whether it's wise to label technology with such contrieved descriptions. I think it would be useful if you could explain the anatomy of such a term? My reading [1] on the matter indicates that it can't be defined as a fediverse because the content is not owned by individual posters, indeed if I were to post s…
Comment linking /howtosavetwitter
on “Mastodon Explained”Submitted Why are people attacking Google buses? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI just found this post, it's a pretty good review of the madness: http://evbogue.com/haters "Learning to deploy Node.js is probably one of the hardest things I've done with my life to date. It's a different kind of challenge than traveling around the globe, or throwing out all of your shit."
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on “The web you know is dying”Submitted Does Untethering Lead to Anxiety? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo when I visit my did:plc at https://plc.directory/did:plc:i3gjwozl32eq3j3ejyw44hh4 It has a reference to alsoKnownAs: ["at://evbogue.com"]. And that is _not_ my did:web. That is a reference to the dns txt record that I used to verify my account and lose the subdomain evbogue.bsky.app that I had before. If I was to upload a document like yours at https://retr0.id/.well-known/did.json How do I configure Bluesky's so…
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on “ATProto and the ownership of identity”Submitted The Exorcism of Steve Jobs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cryptocurrencies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maccentricity as a story · 2 points
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