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Isaac Clayton
Personal blog · slightknack.devprogrammingsystemsai
Isaac Clayton's personal blog at slightknack.dev covers programming, systems and ai. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts are a personal blog and portfolio built with Zola on GitHub Pages, including a post on blockchain-style distributed consensus. The comments only link to the site and its source, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A cozy little corner of the web.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-20
What Hacker News says?
https://slightknack.dev Static site using Zola + custom theme. Something between a blog and a portfolio. (Yeah I really need to cut down on the image sizes on the home page.) Here's the source: https://github.com/slightknack/slightknack.dev I worked pretty hard on this site, and there are a number of Easter eggs (check the 404 page)!
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup as a story · 296 points
HN discussionI vote that we add our blogs / other good blogs we have come across as children on this comment. I'll start, here's mine: - https://slightknack.dev/blog Here are some others: - https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com - https://www.gwern.net/index - https://danluu.com - https://tonsky.me/ - https://lemire.me/blog/ - https://waitbutwhy.com/ - https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ - https://blog.codinghorror.com/
Comment linking /blog
on “If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)”Submitted Building a Rust Mentality as a story · 58 points
HN discussionBlockchain-like distributed concensus mechanisms do have a few practical applications: https://slightknack.dev/blog/chain/ .
Comment linking /blog/chain/
on “Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?”Submitted Mark Versioning: social versioning with semantic guarantees as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI use Zola (static site generator) + GitHub pages for my personal blog[0]. Here's the repo / build action for those interested[1]. It's suprising how easy and cheap it is (free!) to set up a globally distributed website is these days. [0]: https://slightknack.dev/blog [1]: https://github.com/slightknack/slightknack.dev/blob/master/....
Comment linking /blog
on “Show HN: I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites”Submitted One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecting Asynchronous Schedulers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Craft and AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecting Asynchronous Schedulers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Slightknack.dev, a Personal Blog Written with Rust/WASM as a story · 1 points
HN discussion