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funkatron + dead_agent
Personal blog · funkatron.com/postsprogrammingculture
funkatron + dead_agent is a personal blog at funkatron.com about programming and culture. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “My Friend Twitter - on the recent dev ecosystem shifts”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a story about adding a joke to a company's SVN repo navigator and the resulting cleanup, in a thread titled "Unprofessionalism". It does not judge the blog's writing.
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.
The cpu as engine of creation. The cycle of creation and destruction as artistic process. Learning a system in order to subvert it. Teaching others how to control and create and destroy.
Most-linked posts?
- My Friend Twitter - on the recent dev ecosystem shifts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-10
- Empathy is our Most Important Attribute2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-21
What Hacker News says?
I have done things like this, like adding "get your war on" to the svn repo navigator page, http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/war81/ I thought it was hilarious, they paid some dude to "work the weekend" to figure out how to remove it. In retrospect, I should have DONE EXACTLY WHAT I DID, but also add a button to hide the artwork. We need to be human and express ourselves. Nothing of interest happens by consensus. T…
Comment linking /posts/empathy-is-our-most-important-attribute.html
on “Unprofessionalism”Submitted The MicroPHP Manifesto as a story · 165 points
HN discussionSubmitted HP: To Save The webOS Dev Community, Open-Source Enyo Now as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Friend Twitter - on the recent dev ecosystem shifts as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Sourcing Mental Illness as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Empathy is our Most Important Attribute as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Friend Twitter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We’re the Stupid Ones as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stepping Down From Spaz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on the HP “Think Beyond” webOS event as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
