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Jan Heuermann
Personal blog · jotaen.net · on HN as jotaenprogrammingwriting
Jan Heuermann's personal blog at jotaen.net covers programming and writing. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Time tracking with plain text files”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment praises the layout of this personal site, not its writing, so the posts' subject matter is not described by HN readers. It was linked as a Jekyll/Hugo theme reference.
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?
- Time tracking with plain text files3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-31
What Hacker News says?
Anyone has interesting themes for Jekyll/Hugo? I liked the layout in this blog - https://www.jotaen.net/ However, it is a custom template.
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on “Run Your Own Website”Submitted Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study as a story · 358 points
HN discussionHello HN! As a daily user (and enthusiast) of plain-text file formats such as markdown, ledger or todo.txt, I thought that there should also exist an equally simple way for tracking time. After some pondering and experimenting I recently released the open-source project “klog”, which is both a file format and a command line tool. The idea is to have a lightweight syntax to record times in plain text, and to be able…
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on “Show HN: Time tracking with plain text files”Submitted Fast, cheap and automated: deploying static websites to AWS as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted CLI tool, written in Rust, to diff directory snapshots as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Klog retrospective: One year into my open-source time tracking project as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted An explanation of the Arduino Uno hardware components as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time tracking with plain text files as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Error Handling Syntax in Go as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crypto Yahtzee: rolling the dices, peer to peer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker ABC: A short, fun and explorative tutorial for software developers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Writing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mental Poker: dealing cards, peer to peer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Run” scripts: keeping track of commands in coding projects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Continuous Delivery Mindset as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not all binary state is boolean as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Self-Host as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Like App Store, but open, cross-platform and decentralised as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I failed to become a game developer at the age of 13 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time tracking with plain text files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Building a Game AI for “Connect Four” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The art of receiving feedback as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ali Baba and the Forty Relying Parties as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three gripes about Go modules as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking back on 10 years of blogging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fallacy of software development principles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping track of CLI commands in software projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two golden principles for building great APIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Espresso – reactive, fast and testable sketching for Arduino as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a British lord accidentally invented the web as a story · 1 points
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