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Information Flaneur
Personal blog · hughrundle.netprogrammingculture
Information Flaneur is a personal blog at hughrundle.net about programming and culture. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “FOSS maintenance as emotional labor: software stewardship mimics librarianship”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog in discussions of Mastodon reposting and blog licensing. One comment also points to a 2014 post about moving a blog away from comments. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- FOSS maintenance as emotional labor: software stewardship mimics librarianship3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-26
- Mastodon’s eternal September begins?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-09
What Hacker News says?
That appears to be true for the https://hughrundle.net website. It would be unreasonable for the author to complain about consent for people sharing his blog posts anywhere after publishing a public license granting consent to the whole world to do just that (as long as people are following the license). It does not appear to be true for the https://ausglam.space/@hugh Mastodon account. Copying the Mastodon posts an…
Comment linking /
on “Mastodon’s eternal September begins?”Submitted Mastodon’s eternal September begins? as a story · 242 points
HN discussionI could also add this: https://www.hughrundle.net/2014/02/27/why-i-moved-my-blog-fr...
Comment linking /2014/02/27/why-i-moved-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-ghost-and-why-i-turned-off-comments-along-the-way/
on “We're Replacing Comments with Something Better”Submitted Home Invasion – Mastodon's Eternal September Begins as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSS maintenance as emotional labor: software stewardship mimics librarianship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I became a maintainer and all I got was a lousy perspective on librarianship as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
