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Jamie’s blog
Personal blog · jamie.ideasasylum.com · on HN as hopelessprogrammingstartups
Jamie’s blog is a personal blog at jamie.ideasasylum.com about programming and startups. Since 2008, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Moving Off Heroku, Slowly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog whose 2010 post on Kissmetrics' pricing one commenter cites as still on HN. The comment mainly asks about PostageApp's pricing and how it compares with Postmark and SendGrid.
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.
Jamie’s blog about software, startups, and swimming (and other things that don’t alliterate).
Most-linked posts?
- Moving Off Heroku, Slowly3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-31
- The evolution of incident response at Podia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-07
- We Stopped Using Review Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-04
- Hobbies (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-04
What Hacker News says?
I wish you the best of luck. I went into my PhD with totally the wrong reasoning and eventually left after 3 years. All I can say is: the PhD is about the process not the end results ; and it's a qualification to conduct research and nothing more This was my collected rant: http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2008/07/things-i-learnt-during-...
Comment linking /2008/07/things-i-learnt-during-and-about-my-phd/
on “Why I'm Getting a PhD”Submitted You are the scariest monster in the woods as a story · 222 points
HN discussionThis was what I wrote in my post-PhD failure write-up: "It is important to understand, from the outset of the PhD, who your target audience is: it’s you. I remember hearing that, on average, 1.6 people will read your PhD thesis. I’m pretty sure that includes yourself, your spouse, your supervisor, your second supervisor and your examiner (yeah, that’s technically 5 people. If someone says they’ve read your thesis, t…
Comment linking /2008/07/things-i-learnt-during-and-about-my-phd/
on “Why no one will ever read your thesis”Submitted The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins as a story · 91 points
HN discussionCoding is not necessarily part of a PhD (even in Comp Sci!) and programming well certainly isn't. No one will ever look at that code, inspect, test it, document it or complain when any of those things are missing My rather opinionated thoughts on my 3 year failure of a PhD is here: http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2008/07/things-i-learnt-during-... When I applied for software engineering jobs the recruiters ignored my 3…
Comment linking /2008/07/things-i-learnt-during-and-about-my-phd/
on “Software jobs, PhDs and over-qualification”Submitted We're all CTO now as a story · 84 points
HN discussion1) How is this different than http://www.postmarkapp.com or http://www.sendgrid.com ? 2) What will the pricing be? No way am I signing up for a free beta and then have to deal with a crazy high price where I will have to re-do part of my app to switch away. This is still on HN: http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2010/07/kissmetrics-bizarre-pri...
Comment linking /2010/07/kissmetrics-bizarre-pricing
on “PostageApp - The easier way to send email from web apps”Submitted Moving Off Heroku, Slowly as a story · 79 points
HN discussionhttps://jamie.ideasasylum.com Been blogging since ~2000 but archived most the old stuff. Just rebuilt it on Bridgetown, Tailwind, and Cloudflare Pages because I had some free time. Best recent blog post is about my re-discovery of hobbies during sabbatical: https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2023/07/02/hobbies
Comment linking /2023/07/02/hobbies
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Things I learnt during, and about, my PhD as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted KISSmetrics' bizarre pricing decision as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Impersonation as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving Off Heroku, Slowly as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nothing changes unless you change it as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You need to adopt AI (as a software engineer) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Stopped Using Review Apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving Off Heroku, Slowly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving Off Heroku, Slowly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Point as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Podia doesn't use review apps anymore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What you don't know if you don't have a CompSci degree as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can just build it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The evolution of incident response at Podia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The evolution of incident response at Podia as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're All in the Arena as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hobbies (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pairing designers to for nice sites that convert aswell as a story · 1 points
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