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Hrvoje Šimić
Personal blog · shime.sh · on HN as shimecareerprogrammingwriting
Hrvoje Šimić's personal blog at shime.sh covers career, programming and writing. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How I Apply Zettelkasten to Roam”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on tracking bookmarks, notes and snippets, so the posts appear to cover note-keeping. The one comment argues that the method for organising notes matters more than the app used.
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.
A web developer from Croatia, building with Ruby on Rails since 2011.
Most-linked posts?
- How I Apply Zettelkasten to Roam2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-02
What Hacker News says?
The apps/tools you use are not that important. The task of keeping a bunch of notes is technically trivial at this point, hence the myriad of note taking apps… The important thing are the principles you use, your method of how you deal with that information. Several posters here wrote that they never came back to their notes/bookemarks etc. They used all kinds of tools. But how do you order and sort your notes in su…
Comment linking /how-i-apply-zettelkasten-to-roam
on “Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?”Submitted Do whatever you can't stop thinking about as a story · 516 points
HN discussionWrite about whatever interests you. What article would the past you like to read? Some suggestions: - you could write a low-effort "today I learned" posts, where you would share tips and tricks about something that you've learned during your day job (e.g. https://shime.sh/til/ ) - you could write a high-effort "deep dive" posts, where you would explore how a certain library works under the hood (e.g. https://shime.s…
Comment linking /deep-dive/
on “Ask HN: Getting started with my technical blog. What to write? How to start?”Submitted 4 tips from 6 years of remote freelancing as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Landing that remote job as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I've just deleted five of my ideas as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beware of Programming Puzzles as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Apply Zettelkasten to Roam as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Achieving balance between reading and writing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 8-week writing challenge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Love Jekyll and GitHub Pages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freedom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Money and time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thanks via email as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from my third failed startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git commit message syntax highlighting in Vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming for money until I'm too old to as a story · 1 points
HN discussion