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jeena.net
Personal blog · jeena.net · on HN as jeenaprogrammingcareerculture
jeena.net is a personal blog at jeena.net about programming, career and culture. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 86 times, most often “Content is King? How it sucked out the joy of personal websites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeena's "PHP: The Good Parts" material, a presentation on PHP's strengths, shared mostly as a PDF and a readable image version. Comments are brief links and one remark on the site's webmention display.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Content is King? How it sucked out the joy of personal websites2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-22
- /php-the-good-parts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-09
- /photos/2012 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-22
What Hacker News says?
That is the second most important thing why I'm using Firefox, I sync my passwords via my own instance of the sync server https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15 . I don't even trust Mozilla not to do something stupid with my passwords (by accident) and Firefox was always the only browser which allowed to use your own sync solution.
Comment linking /firefox-sync-15
on “Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users”Submitted Why I switched from OS X to Linux as a story · 472 points
HN discussionMeh, old news at least for me who always has been sceptikal, I point out a lot of those reasons out in my IndieWeb talk: https://jeena.net/media/2016/IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf
Comment linking /media/2016/IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf
on “Facebook is an attack on the open web”Submitted 20 Years of Blogging on my own website as a story · 165 points
HN discussionI use Firefox on mobile and desktop because it is the only browser which lets you to run your own sync server: https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15
Comment linking /firefox-sync-15
on “Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration”Submitted My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a privileged app as a story · 54 points
HN discussionI set it up 2015 https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15 and it's running on my server ever since mostly without problems. I think it hang one time so I needed to restart it but otherwise great software, even though the documentation on how to install it was kind of non existent back then. But now that also improved a lot in addition that it's now easy to use on Android too.
Comment linking /firefox-sync-15
on “Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default”Submitted I put a Raspberry Pi into a radio from the 80's to get a portable AirPlay device as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSo, suprise suprise, my 6 years old blogpost continues to be spot on https://jeena.net/paypal that is when I deleted my PayPal account. But it was not all dance on roses after that, suprisingly many only offer PayPal as a way to pay them, so I always have to try to contact them and to try to explain and to ask for another way to pay. Most of the time they won't/can't help me.
Comment linking /paypal
on ““PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files””Submitted Social seems broken in almost all services. Can it be fixed? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionInteresting that my blog post which is now 7 years still is not outdated: https://jeena.net/spotify-facebook Back then I stopped using Spotify because they forced every new user to use Facebook to log in.
Comment linking /spotify-facebook
on “Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account”Submitted Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed; Threadyverse software alternatives as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSync with my mobile and all the other devices (4 other computers) is one reason why I use Firefox. It's because it's the only browser, as far as I know, which lets me run my own sync server and offers a open source implementation of it. https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15
Comment linking /firefox-sync-15
on “The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70”Submitted Google Now failed me as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI'm not quite sure what you mean, aren't list of things to read very personal and dependent on the taste and interests of the person? My website has full feed: https://jeena.net/all.atom and so have blogs like Kottke http://feeds.kottke.org/main Marco Arment https://marco.org/rss Scott Hanslemann http://feeds.hanselman.com/ScottHanselman and most of the personal blogs you can find out there. But as I said, I most pr…
Comment linking /all.atom
on “Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance”Submitted How to eat less meat? – For better health and a better world as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'd say blog about your stuff with the screenshots/screencasts, I have one 12 years old of an iPhone game I made https://jeena.net/monster-tiles
Comment linking /monster-tiles
on “Take more screenshots”Submitted Content is King? I was wrong about it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt was about two years ago I closed my G+ account because of that https://jeena.net/gplus and I just had a look at my G+ account (which I closed) and there are posts that I have been using hangouts and some YouTube comment too. So I assume it is not possible to really close a G+ account.
Comment linking /gplus
on “Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me”Submitted Scaling on Linux still very frustrating as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have events on my website https://jeena.net/events/ plain HTML marked up with h-event http://microformats.org/wiki/h-event and I can receive RSVPs with help of https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/ It was fairly easy to implement, the only problem is that not many of the people I know have software which lets them RSVP too, therefor I also connected it to Facebook.
Comment linking /events/
on “MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud”Submitted Content is King? How it sucked out the joy of personal websites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote about my self-hosted alternative https://jeena.net/private-music-streaming
Comment linking /private-music-streaming
on “Grooveshark Shuts Down”Submitted Suprise bill from my Object Storage provider as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt had the exact opposite effect for me. I used Spotify for a couple of years and basically only listened to the same playlists over and over again. Only when they forced people to use Facebook to log in I stopped paying and using their service and suddenly a whole new world oppened for me. I started using SoundCloud, Jammendo and YouTube to find new music from outside of the mainstream and never looked back. This w…
Comment linking /private-music-streaming
on “Grooveshark Shuts Down”Submitted My website was down because I didn't pay the server bill as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have to wonder, is this some kind of a joke? https://jeena.net/s/google-fonts.png
Comment linking /s/google-fonts.png
on “Google Fonts Redesigned”Submitted I asked ChatGTP to write me a script to delete one million emails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's kind of like I do it [1], I only have a RSS file and the mp3 uploaded to the server. I send that RSS link to that one iTunes service so it indexes the RSS file so that all the podcast apps which use their API for their search can find my podcast and subscribe to the RSS file on my server and download the mp3's from my server. For the gear, I went fairly cheap, I got a Zoom H5 [2], which is super small, light…
Comment linking /pods.rss
on “Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?”Submitted Changing work life balance – I'm working now four days a week as a story · 2 points
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