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Granola Shotgun
Personal blog · granolashotgun.wordpress.comeconomicsculture
Granola Shotgun is a personal blog at granolashotgun.wordpress.com about economics and culture. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers call this a favourite blog, valued for its unique viewpoint on urbanism, homesteads, and town planning and its frank take on everyday American life. Several posts have reached the HN front page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stories About Urbanism, Adaptation, and Resilience
What Hacker News says?
Glad to see there are other fans of Granola Shotgun on HN. Most of the titles Johnny uses are probably too vague to capture interest here, but a few submissions have made the front page: "Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626389 https://www.granolashotgun.com/granolashotguncom/2mvygaw3y67... "The Show Horse and the Work Horse" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497711 https…
Comment linking /2017/05/05/guaranteed-minimum-what/
on “We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship”Submitted The Show Horse and the Work Horse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA tangent: Granola Shotgun is one of my favorite blogs and Johnny has a unique viewpoint on many issues like urbanism, homesteads, town planning, etc. A quote from him that summarizes his writing to me: "So this is what America is actually like. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Look out your window. Take a drive down to your local big box store. Walk around your neighborhood. This is reality. Just sayin’." I have li…
Comment linking /2019/06/03/levittown/
on “We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship”Submitted Teachers, Pipes, and Pavement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAmerica is really bad for this sort of thing though? One example that stands out in my mind: The shower is outside on the back patio. The shower is fitted with hot water from the conventional water heater plumbed from the house. The shower is surrounded by a stainless steel privacy screen and a lot of really tall tropical plants. It’s the one feature that friends and family seem to like the most about the cottage. B…
Comment linking /2014/05/22/building-codes-and-the-self-built-mortgage-free-home/
on “Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?”Reminds me of this: https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/not-for-came...
Comment linking /2020/07/23/not-for-camera-view/
on “The sticky issue of consent in street photography”Part of the problem is that some of those subsidies are invisible to the average person. It's not a line item on their bills; it's more subtle. For example, the infrastructure required to service low-density settlements: https://granolashotgun.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/a-thousand-h...
Comment linking /2016/08/31/a-thousand-hidden-subsidies/
on “20-Minute Neighborhoods”