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Jerry Ng
Personal blog · jerrynsh.comprogrammingproductivity
Jerry Ng's personal blog at jerrynsh.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “I Built a Craft Beer Search Engine for Free”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Welcome to my personal website. I like building software and explaining stuff in plain language. Here, I write about my silly pursuits and unlikely follies.
Most-linked posts?
- I Built a Craft Beer Search Engine for Free2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
- Four Ways of Bumping Go Major Versions in Your Go Project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-25
- Building What Michelin Wouldn't: Its Awards History2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-23
What Hacker News says?
I'm trying to systematically track & collect historical MICHELIN awards for restaurants globally. It's been fun to look at the results! site: https://michelindb.jerrynsh.com/michelin and I wrote about my journey here: https://jerrynsh.com/building-what-michelin-wouldnt-its-awar...
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)”Submitted Storing Scraped Data in an SQLite Database on GitHub as a story · 42 points
HN discussionYou can replicate DDG's bangs in Chrome too: https://jerrynsh.com/how-to-google-with-a-bang/#how-to-googl...
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on “Firefox Address Bar Tips”Submitted I Built a Craft Beer Search Engine for Free as a story · 15 points
HN discussionone of my all-time favorites was "We are so conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unawares" – from the blog post titled 'The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget' over the years, i kept my interesting finds at https://jerrynsh.com/food-for-thought/
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite parables, anecdotes, idioms, etc.?”Submitted Ditch These 7 Bad Habits in Python as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA lot! i've just written everything down here: https://jerrynsh.com/a-look-back-on-7-years-of-automating-st... it was alot of fun and a good reminder of why i started programming the one that meant the most for me was earlier this year, I made an add-on for me and my friends that automatically syncs esports matches (e.g. Valorant, CS, LoL etc.) to Google Calendar . Things took some turns 10 months later I now have 1…
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on “Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?”Submitted How to Ask for Help as a Developer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://jerrynsh.com/ Started this blog about 2 years ago. I write about Python, web-scraping or some inconsequential tiny projects (inspired by tinyprojects.dev :D) that I worked on. TBH, I haven't settled on any niche.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Building What Michelin Wouldn't: Its Awards History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built a Craft Beer Search Engine for Free as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Built a Visa Requirement Change Tracker for Fun as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four Ways of Bumping Go Major Versions in Your Go Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of Bumping Major Versions in Your Go Project as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy Ways to Add Version Flag in Go as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Kept Declining My Meeting Room as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Explored My Z Shell History as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Look Back on 7 Years of Automating Stuff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Google with a Bang as a story · 1 points
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