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Jeremy B. Merrill

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Jeremy B. Merrill's personal blog at jeremybmerrill.com covers programming and writing. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jeremy B. Merrill's posts as a DIY flyover plane-tracking write-up and a note on updating dollar figures for inflation. One commenter cites his programmer-journalist web-scraping work.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Jeremy B. Merrill is a journalist who codes. This is his personal site, with links to his work and his (very occasional) blogposts.

Most-linked posts?

  1. That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. danso · 2019-02-17
    Reminds me of this DIY article: http://jeremybmerrill.com/blog/2016/01/flyover.html HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10969447

    Comment linking /blog/2016/01/flyover.html

    on “Flightradar24 – how it works”
  2. bentaber · 2016-01-25

    Submitted That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA as a story · 100 points

    HN discussion
  3. danso · 2017-05-30
    Trivia point: One of the co-authors of the piece, Jeremy Merrill, is a programmer-journalist at the Times (and previously at ProPublica); I imagine he helped with the code: https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/upton-a-web-scraping-f... http://jeremybmerrill.com/blog/2016/01/flyover.html http://jeremybmerrill.com/clips/2013/05/updating-dollars-for...

    Comment linking /clips/2013/05/updating-dollars-for-docs/

    on “As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating”
  4. earthboundkid · 2023-09-28

    Submitted Champagne for My Real Friends as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. todsacerdoti · 2023-09-27

    Submitted Champagne for My Real Friends as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. auraham · 2022-01-26

    Submitted Squirrel Soaker 9000: Protecting the Birdfeeder with Artificial Intelligence as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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