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Jason F. McBrayer
Personal blog · jfm.carcosa.net/blogprogrammingculture
Jason F. McBrayer's personal blog at jfm.carcosa.net covers programming and culture. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Some thoughts on social networking and Usenet (2018)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a reply in a thread about a personal knowledge platform, linking other blogs about modern desktop complaints. It says nothing about this blog's writing, so its value to HN readers is unclear.
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.
The personal site of Jason McBrayer
Most-linked posts?
- Some thoughts on social networking and Usenet (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-01
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for reply and for have shared your project first! > I think we can refresh some the things that make it powerful with a fresh coat of paint, to make it more accessible to a “younger generation.” That's what scare me, again in general: I see regular small complaint of modern absurdity, posts like: - https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/your-desktop-is-not-a-destinat... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838697…
Comment linking /blog/computing/usenet/
on “Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform”Submitted Some thoughts on social networking and Usenet (2018) as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brutaldon as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gopher and the Lynx Web (2019) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Thoughts on Social Networking and Usenet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating a Gopher Site with Hugo as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
