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ideas and ramblings
Personal blog · writing.markchristian.org · on HN as markchristiangameshistorywriting
ideas and ramblings is a personal blog at writing.markchristian.org about games, history and writing. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Punny Name Ideas for Food Trucks”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog for its RSS feed, its food truck name ideas page, and posts on cartridge sensors and retro modems. One commenter says the footnote numbering in one article is wrong.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A fond farewell to a long-forgotten app
Most-linked posts?
- Punny Name Ideas for Food Trucks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-30
- Sensors in Game Boy Cartridges2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-12
What Hacker News says?
Now all browsers have removed the RSS feed button, here's his! https://writing.markchristian.org/feed.xml
Comment linking /feed.xml
on “Have a personal web site”Submitted Have a personal web site as a story · 883 points
HN discussionAgreed. I'm a bit jealous of his (Mostly) food truck name ideas, https://writing.markchristian.org/name-ideas/ . Once, in the functional programming rabbit-hole, a coworker advocated for a hypothetical Indian food truck named Haskell's Curry. And when I was studying propositional logic I certainly wouldn't have said no to a side of De Morgan's ColesLaw.
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on “Have a personal web site”Submitted Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems as a story · 131 points
HN discussionThanks, Graeme. The free trial is actually an entire non-App Store version with its own in-app purchase -- I chronicled the experience at http://writing.markchristian.org/2012/03/30/make-your-own-ap... in the hopes of sharing the knowledge with other potential indie devs.
Comment linking /2012/03/30/make-your-own-app-store.html
on “Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed”Submitted Lock 'n roll: a tale of three cartridges as a story · 80 points
HN discussionThanks, Sean. :) I wrote this up a few weeks ago to help give other developers their own plan B in case of similar difficulties: http://writing.markchristian.org/2012/03/30/make-your-own-ap...
Comment linking /2012/03/30/make-your-own-app-store.html
on “Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed”Submitted Make your own App Store as a story · 19 points
HN discussionHey, markchristian, the footnote numbering in this article is off/inconsistent. (The links seem correct, but the numbers are wrong.) Would you mind fixing this? Thank you! Edit: Whoops, sorry, I got mixed up. This comment actually applies to your "sensors in cartridges" article ( https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/05/11/sensors-in-cart... ), not the one I'm actually commenting on. Oops.
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on “Vintage video game cartridges with built-in modems”Submitted So Long, ICQ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote up my experiences on releasing outside of the App Store: http://writing.markchristian.org/2012/03/30/make-your-own-ap... I use Stripe for payment processing with a custom in-app UI for buying the app. Stripe has been great — they charge 50c+2.9%, so I lose about 44c per copy of DragonDrop sold (versus losing about $1.50 to Apple in the App Store). I suggest releasing in the App Store if possible, but selling…
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on “Releasing Outside The App Store”Submitted Wither Offline Mode? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have a Personal Web Site as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sensors in Game Boy Cartridges as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A look at some video games systems inside of cartridges (part 2 of 4) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A System of Cartridges as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A brief history of saved games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Punny Name Ideas for Food Trucks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GitHub Webhooks to rebuild static web sites as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The life and times of the Nintendo 64 controller as a story · 1 points
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