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Personal blog · gtf.io/musingscultureprogramming

GTF is a personal blog at gtf.io about culture and programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet (2018)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
6HN people?
2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

Gideon's corner of the internet

Most-linked posts?

  1. Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet (2018)
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-21
  2. Why Haskell?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-11
  3. DNA and Surveillance Capitalism
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. I really like https://gwern.net . When I built my own site ( https://www.gtf.io ), I tried to make it as "minimalist" as possible -- fast rendering (v little CSS, no JS, completely static). I wanted it to have no distractions whatsoever, I just wanted it to be readable.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?”
  2. Submitted Why Haskell? as a story · 433 points

    HN discussion
  3. I set up a private mailman instance last year [1] and I found the experience _extremely_ painful. [1]: https://www.gtf.io/projects/personal_infrastructure/#mailing...

    Comment linking /projects/personal_infrastructure/

    on “Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?”
  4. Submitted Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet (2018) as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  5. I looked at Fastmail and many others when I made this switch at the end of 2018. I moved my whole family's email setup from google. Fastmail is based in Australia, which is a five-eyes country so I ruled it out (sadly, as would have loved to use it). I wrote all of this up here: https://www.gtf.io/musings/moving-away-from-google-email/ Spoiler: ended up using Runbox (www.runbox.com). I disagree with them on this but…

    Comment linking /musings/moving-away-from-google-email/

    on “Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?”
  6. Submitted Coding in Haskell: A New Adventure as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why Haskell as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted DNA and Surveillance Capitalism as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why Haskell? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted DNA and Surveillance Capitalism as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Deus Ex Techna as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Musing on Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Promises as Monads as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Simulator as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Content, Creativity, and Monetisation in the Modern Internet (2018) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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