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Gwen Bell

Personal blog · gwenbell.com/posts · on HN as gwenbellproductivitywritingculture

Gwen Bell's personal blog at gwenbell.com covers productivity, writing and culture. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2013–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a Patchwork thread as a pointer to Decent, an entirely in-browser Secure Scuttlebutt fork with automatic key provisioning. The comment only links the post and does not judge the 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 author on HN?

gwenbell · 298 karma · member since 2013

https://gwenbell.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Possible the only thing about [blogs]( http://gwenbell.com/#GBnQXVaaT2CggWpq0hfqlqjePhu9m1jULjBHxMF... ) that changed is the shape?

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    on “If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)”
  2. Submitted Write before you die as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Read it. Commented on my own site, here: http://gwenbell.com/#Cl1yKR9Kh0hI0za8VLmSZZaDY6qtObOJhBgg10X... Thanks for reading and commenting, if you wish.

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    on “A monk’s guide to office life”
  4. Submitted I Duck Duck Go You as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Decent [1] is an entirely in-browser Secure Scuttlebutt fork with automatic key provisioning for easy onboarding. [1] http://decent.gwenbell.com/ ETA: More explanation directly on http://gwenbell.com

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    on “Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt”
  6. Submitted Do The Work. Write Before You Die. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How I organize my digital world as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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