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Jay Little
Personal blog · jaylittle.com · on HN as jaylittleprogrammingculturegames
Jay Little's personal blog at jaylittle.com covers programming, culture and games. Since 2019, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Jay Little about the troubled Librem 5 phone and Purism company, and about the limits of low-code and AI in software development. Commenters link them as background or support, without judging the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tech Tinkerer, Software Developer and Kvetcher
Most-linked posts?
- The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 55 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-27
- How Not to Switch to Linux with Your Hosts Linus and Luke2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-30
What Hacker News says?
They are an SPC not aln LLC. Does anyone know what is the difference between a Washington SPCs and LLCs? Is it true that as mentioned here[0] that: > I think the story is that Washington SPCs are LLCs in pretty much every aspect besides shareholder-board disputes. and, why > have they never made a Social Purpose Report available despite the fact that they've been an SPC for two and a half years? from the bottom of t…
Comment linking /post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1
on “Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?”Submitted The Sad Saga of Purism and the Librem 5 as a story · 251 points
HN discussionI purchased the LibreM phone when it was being crowdfunded. I waited years for the thing to be released, and what they came out with at the end was beyond disappointing. It's nearly three times heavier and 2.5x thicker than a normal phone- by today's standards, the thing is a brick. If I had been told that I was going to get a developer device, that would have been one thing, but I (and many others) were sold the Li…
Comment linking /post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1
on “Manufacturing the Librem 5 USA Phone in the US”Submitted Unreasonable expectations from LTT Linux challenge as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot quite a pocket pc, but famously and recently, the librem 5[0]. My comment below wishing them luck hinted at this, it's almost expected for them to falter during delivery, ghost everyone and disappear because it has become a sadly familiar pattern around these open source electronics in small factor (phones, pocket pcs and the like). [0] https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri... HN comments:…
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on “Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket”Submitted How Not to Switch to Linux with Your Hosts Linus and Luke as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'd probably buy it if it got it, but I'm not holding my breath, given all the bad accounts I've read about the company: https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...
Comment linking /post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1
on “GNU/Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones”Submitted Low Code Software Development Is a Lie as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBe that as it may, with the problems purism has been having in developing this phone this announcement points to a desperate attempt at getting cash. https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri... https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri... https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri...
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on “Librem 5 USA”Submitted Unity Killed Modern Proprietary Gaming for Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA fair warning to anyone looking at placing an order for this. https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri... https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri... https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-puri... The company practices a lot of shady business. Their "phone" that they are so proudly claiming to be releasing to backers cannot place phone calls , the camera does…
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on “Librem 5 USA”Submitted Tech Team Dead Weight a.k.a. Lutz as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI blog just for the hell of it. No client side trackers, no ads, just the spew of thoughts I need to get out of my head by vocalizing them. It costs me money every month and brings in no revenue and I fucking love it. https://jaylittle.com/ The personal, honest and vulnerable (emotionally, not security-wise) internet is still out there, ya just got to look a bit harder for it nowadays.
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on “What happened to blogging for the hell of it?”Submitted Developer Brethren, Its Time to Embrace Boring as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> If writing the code is no longer the hard part, what is? I would say that the act of writing the code wasn't the hard part ever and love to cite this post: https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2023/4/low-code-software-dev... > In both the AI Chatbot and the Low Code tool scenarios, the solutions each promise a shortcut around the complexity as perceived by a non-practitioner. That’s the essence of the trap. Practitione…
Comment linking /post/view/2023/4/low-code-software-development-is-a-lie/
on “Ask HN: If AI writes the code, what matters?”I love this post. This perfectly lays out why I have operated my own blog for over 20 years now. I liking having my own space where I can say what I want. There is also real value in me going back and reading what I said a year, five years or even ten years back. My blog posts have proven to be a useful way of reminding future Jay of what past Jay was going through as I have a tendency to look at the past through ro…
Comment linking /post/view/2023/7/i-am-on-the-mcnulty-spectrum
on “Nobody cares about your blog”
