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Hi, I'm Casey!
Personal blog · caseywatts.com/blog · on HN as heycaseywattsupprogrammingweb
Hi, I'm Casey! is a personal blog at caseywatts.com about programming and web. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on whether Mastodon generates more engagement than Twitter. The post describes one person's engagement experience after joining Mastodon.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I love to help people and groups become more happy and effective 🌈. I like: singing, dancing, blowing bubbles, enthusiasm, clear communication.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/welcome-to-mastodon/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
What Hacker News says?
Write a book! +1 you all can do it Here are some of my tips from when I wrote Debugging Your Brain. How I developed my ideas for the book (discussions, conference talks) https://www.caseywatts.com/blog/casey-s-writing-process/ How I got feedback from beta readers https://docs.google.com/document/d/13EwX8L6RCUbiu86Lik1xZ8eX... How I wrote and typeset my book from markdown to an eBook and print book, via pandoc/latex…
Comment linking /blog/casey-s-writing-process/
on “You too can write a book”Submitted Browser Support in 2025: What new features can I safely use? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> The evidence for this is https://www.caseywatts.com/blog/welcome-to-mastodon/ which is completely vacuous: a single person No, that's just one piece of evidence. This is also my experience as a Mastodon user, as well as the experience of many other Mastodons users I've heard. As the submitted post says "A RECURRING COMMENT [emphasis mine] from people who post stuff on the internet and give Mastodon/fediverse a try…
Comment linking /blog/welcome-to-mastodon/
on “Mastodon generates more engagement than Twitter. Why?”Submitted Happy Capacity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe evidence for this is https://www.caseywatts.com/blog/welcome-to-mastodon/ which is completely vacuous: a single person for an unspecified period measuring unspecified 'engagement' with a round number and no mention of how many followers cannibalized from Twitter or how a migration produces tons of fodder for discussion (eg the entire post is an advertisement/explainer for Mastodon) or about the general decline i…
Comment linking /blog/welcome-to-mastodon/
on “Mastodon generates more engagement than Twitter. Why?”Submitted Codemods as a story · 1 points
HN discussion