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Jarred Sumner

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Jarred Sumner's personal blog at jarredsumner.com covers programming and ai. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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11mentions?
9HN people?
2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post is about remembering Windows 3.1 desktop themes and user self-expression. One commenter cites it alongside points about styling on the web and self-hosted blogs.

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.

Creator of Bun. Working at Anthropic.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-01-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. mawise · 2021-01-22
    I think stylistic self-expression is important! While this article focuses on desktop and owned devices, there's been similar sentiment about the web (for example: [1]. Facebook gives everyone's site the same uniform styling, so there isn't much room for stylistic self-expression on the web. Unless you run your own site. This was one thing I kept in mind on my side project (easily self-hosted private blogs)[2] where…

    Comment linking /codeblog/

    on “Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment”
  2. firloop · 2019-01-30

    Submitted Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? as a story · 1516 points

    HN discussion
  3. tsujp · 2022-07-06

    Submitted Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019) as a story · 313 points

    HN discussion
  4. Jarred · 2012-04-02

    Submitted Why I’m taking full responsibility for my education as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  5. jamesg_oca · 2020-06-20

    Submitted Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019) as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  6. cc_cccc · 2021-03-04

    Submitted Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. kosasbest · 2022-03-05

    Submitted Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Jarred · 2012-01-10

    Submitted Donald Norman's (unintended) description of the iPhone - in 1990 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. sanmak · 2021-06-18

    Submitted Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Jarred · 2012-09-07

    Submitted Requirements are only guidelines as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Dangeranger · 2019-09-16

    Submitted WebThing CLI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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