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Idiomdrottning
Personal blog · idiomdrottning.orgprogrammingwriting
Idiomdrottning is a personal blog at idiomdrottning.org about programming and writing. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Bad Emacs Defaults”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal essay on whether to keep painting and writing now that AI tools exist. One commenter cites its dilemma about AI making old tools obsolete while distrusting dependency on AI services.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Bad Emacs Defaults2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-30
- Our Current FOSS Dystopia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-09
What Hacker News says?
I think the author correctly identifies a dilemma of being unable to ignore AI's capabilities as it enables you to leave your old tools in the dust, but being apprehensive of cultivating dependency in the latest AI services. Progress is being undone in at least one front. The PC had transferred the ownership of the means of produ--I mean "democratized" the creation of art and communication. (and duh, computing) Howe…
Comment linking /gallery
on “I don't want to paint or write in the age of AI”Submitted A simple mess as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing SOFA as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fancy Defines as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Define-Curry as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dashes and their uses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Emacs Defaults as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Current FOSS Dystopia as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xj – HTML to JSON as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Current FOSS Dystopia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Emacs defaults as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep Infrastructure Free as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unzip Is Applied Zip as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don't want to paint or write in the age of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Zone of Suck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Idiomdrottning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Threadiverse vs. Mailing Lists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The life-changing magic of Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Original Inbox Zero as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Söt Kalender as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When was the Internet invented? as a story · 1 points
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