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Jason Griffey
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Jason Griffey's personal blog at jasongriffey.net covers culture and writing. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links posts by Jason Griffey on commoditizing complements (Autodesk and Unreal Engine), leaving the Mac App Store, and LibraryBox/PirateBox, his self-hosted offline file-sharing project. Also cited on libraries and open source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past…"
What Hacker News says?
Why do you think the AppStore is not working as intended? http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2012/04/19/commoditizing-our-comp...
Comment linking /wp/2012/04/19/commoditizing-our-complements/
on “Leaving the Mac App Store”Submitted LibraryBox as a story · 100 points
HN discussionCommoditize one's compliments: https://jasongriffey.net/wp/2012/04/19/commoditizing-our-com... Unreal Engine, like Unity, right now has to be used with Autodesk products like 3DS Max or Maya, or at least that is the case with the large majority of professionals. This is an impediment to using Unreal Engine and thus makes Epic Games sort of dependent on Autodesk. There is probably no coincidence that the new general…
Comment linking /wp/2012/04/19/commoditizing-our-complements/
on “Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M”Submitted LibraryBox is a self-contained digital resource sharing device. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out LibraryBox/PirateBox. While not typically featuring a cellular connection they're at least an independent host for files/wiki/whatever and meant to be self-sufficient. http://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/
Comment linking /librarybox/
on “This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power”Submitted LibraryBox: Portable Private Digital Distribution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNeat idea, although no longer active. https://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/notactive.php I do wonder how readily people would just connect to such a thing, or how readily they should just trust such a thing...
Comment linking /librarybox/notactive.php
on “LibraryBox”Former Librarian (9 years out) : I was shocked at the negative reaction I received from all librarians at the time with the terms Open Source / Free Software. Caused is the proprietary nature of the Library Systems. They were so archaic and backwards it caused me to look for a new job within 6 months. Mine was from Sirsi Dynix. Steve Balmer had nothing on these people. My servers was a Windows Server with a Oracles…
Comment linking /wp/2009/11/03/sirsi-dynix-vs-open-source-software/
on “Why public libraries need to support open source”Years ago there was PirateBox: flash a small Wifi access point with a custom firmware that's a webserver that hosts a forum/filehost. Their website is dead, but here's a mod of the project; https://www.jasongriffey.net/librarybox/ Although, I dread to think what sort of files one would get when user uploads are allowed.
Comment linking /librarybox/
on “Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb”