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Jacky Alciné
Personal blog · jacky.wtf/essays · on HN as jackyalcinepoliticsculture
Jacky Alciné's personal blog at jacky.wtf covers politics and culture. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Being kicked out of the tech industry”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jacky Alciné's personal site for its projects, such as notes on Livtet, a Lua book-collection tool, and for its place among personal sites. The comments do not assess the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /work/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-01
- Being kicked out of the tech industry2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-29
What Hacker News says?
I'm always looking for personal sites that are still out there. I love some of the ones she listed. Here are some random ones I found yesterday. http://merkoba.com/ http://angusnicneven.com/ http://danieltemkin.com/ http://joelcalifa.com/ https://jacky.wtf/ https://www.jacobyyoung.com/about http://nik.works/ http://web.archive.org/web/20180501202224/https://shiba.comp... Here are two I found several days ago, but th…
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer? as a story · 74 points
HN discussionI need to clean up this page but I'm working on a local(-ish) book collection tool (calling it Livtet for "book head" in Haitian Kreyol). https://www.jacky.wtf/projects/livtet/ has some notes but https://man.sr.ht/~jacky/livtet is much better. It's been fun using Lua to externalize a lot of logic (and I'm looking into using https://github.com/teal-language/tl because I love me some typing. Outside of that, I've been…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?”Submitted Being kicked out of the tech industry as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI don’t know about that resume: https://www.jacky.wtf/work/ Based on what I read there I wouldn’t even consider them for a role.
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on “Being kicked out of the tech industry”Submitted Being kicked out of the tech industry as a story · 21 points
HN discussionLocation: Sarasota, FL Remote: Ideally Willing to relocate: Yeah. Technologies: Rust, CSS, HTML, Postgres + SQLite, React + Svelte, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python + Rust, and the AWS Cloud. Resume/CV: https://www.jacky.wtf/work/ Email: yo@jacky.wtf I'm currently doing a lot of open social Web stuff at https://www.olamaelcu.net/ but it's all free stuff and not (currently) paying. Would like to still keep lights on!
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)”Submitted A Web That Reflects People and Their Values as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThis is part of the reason why I stopped heavily engaging with ActivityPub. It's not everyone because I know the team of folks who make apps for the space but it's engagement like this who convinced me to write https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/one-over-other/ and had me just step away from ActivityPub (at least until I can see https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api drop and I'll reengage).
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on “Bluesky Trademarks ATProto”Submitted The Job Hunt Is Driving Me Mad as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can a leftist position on the use of generative AI be materially held? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incorporating Lua with Livtet – Jacky Alciné as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boxing Up Common Parts of an App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Question on Domain Names in the IndieWeb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving from vim to neovim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hard Reset (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Web that Reflects People and their Values (2022) as a story · 1 points
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