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Iain Schmitt
Personal blog · iainschmitt.com/postprogramminghistoryculture
Iain Schmitt's personal blog at iainschmitt.com covers programming, history and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, 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 blog and portfolio stacks. The one comment describes the site as markdown files rendered to HTML by an ASP.NET app, published by committing to a repo with GitHub Actions.
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.
Iain Schmitt's Personal Website
What Hacker News says?
My blog is a set of markdown files parsed to HTML by an ASP.NET application. You can self host GitHb actions runners, so making a new post is as simple as committing a markdown file. I wrote the static site stuff myself which was probably a waste of time, but a static site created by Hugo/Jekyll/etc. hosted on your own VPS or server and deployed with GitHub actions (or another version control equivalent) is definite…
Comment linking /post/new-syntax-highlighting
on “Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?”Submitted Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non-performant software and its incentives as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Rough and Incomplete Back End Developer Skill Tree as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The English Civil Wars and the Republic That Failed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Great Token Wager as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Strangest Carrier: Southern Linc as a story · 1 points
HN discussion