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~gallant
Personal blog · gallant.dev/posts · on HN as agallantphilosophyprogramming
~gallant is a personal blog at gallant.dev about philosophy and programming. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “We Select Our Distractions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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- We Select Our Distractions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-22
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https://gallant.dev/ A straightforward blog (static site generated by Nikola), but I had fun styling it to look kinda like an old CRT. I also loaded it up with IndieWeb goodness (webmentions, pingbacks), bridged the webmentions to Twitter (will add Mastodon at some point), and added comments via GitHub. All this is described here: https://gallant.dev/posts/a-blog-reborn/
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Typing Is Thinking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are absolutely folks - usually parents without musical experience who want their kid to have it (often for status, as a "good" extracurricular) - who push the sort of perspective you're countering. Onerous practice routines and robotization of expression are indeed antithetical to joy, and often result in the kids quitting sooner or later. But just because it is commonly misapplied and misperceived doesn't mea…
Comment linking /posts/play-the-indicated-pitches-at-the-indicated-rhythms
on “Piano Practice Software Progress”Submitted We Select Our Distractions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSure - but it could still be pretty relevant if we want to ask about the future of beverage making and consumption, especially if new technology enables everybody to mass-produce lemonade (and similar sugary beverages) at home at minimal cost. I'm quite sympathetic to poetry - I actually wrote a blog post about this article last week https://gallant.dev/posts/whither-poetry/ But much like the "debate" between lingui…
Comment linking /posts/whither-poetry/
on “AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably”Submitted We Select Our Distractions (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://gallant.dev Haven't had the chance to write for awhile, but been wanting to get back to it. In addition to normal static site stuff it has webmentions/pingbacks, comments, and (probably now broken) interoperability with Twitter (likes would show up as webmentions) - overall it was a fun excuse to figure out IndieWeb stuff ( https://gallant.dev/posts/a-blog-reborn/ is where I explain that).
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Notes as Closure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profit as a Series of Asymmetries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fortune as Cognitive Bias as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Disruptor's Dilemma as a story · 1 points
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