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Jet Holt
Personal blog · jetholt.com · on HN as Jetroidprogramminghardwarephilosophy
Jet Holt's personal blog at jetholt.com covers programming, hardware and philosophy. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about starting a blog, perfectionism in writing, and an experiment in micro posting. The only comment describes the post's content without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal site for Jet 'Jetroid' Holt
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of the time when my sister and I took pictures with very similar composition of the sky - and you can see the same clouds in each photo. https://jetholt.com/connected-minds/ I love things like this.
Comment linking /connected-minds/
on “Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time”Submitted Starting Many Things as a story · 82 points
HN discussionThis post appears to be part of an experiment in "micro posting": > Usually, I try to aim for a certain standard of quality in my writing, and this can really hold me up from writing about something I want to write about. > Sometimes it takes a week or more just to write one post. Yeah, perfection is killer. > It gets worse when I add images, because I agonise over them. > So I’m going to be writing more things to a…
Comment linking /may-2020-microblogs/
on “Starting Many Things”Submitted A Guide to Pic Microcontroller Paging as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThis is cool! I created another page that is more UNIX terminal-like over at https://jetholt.com/terminal/ that you might like too. It's a lot more like the framework that you created. There's a preponderance of Tech people who create terminal-like projects, so I think that we replicate it purely because we see it so much every day, and to relive the feelings that we had when we first started seeing the power and be…
Comment linking /terminal/
on “Show HN: Fallout Terminal Themed Blog”Submitted Show HN: Fallout Terminal Themed Blog as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHey HN! I just got finished working on this yesterday. If you don't know what Fallout is, or what the hacking minigame is , you can check here[0] and here[1], respectively. My version displays the hacking minigame, and then when successfully hacked, it displays the posts from my website, exactly as if it was on a terminal in the game. I originally made it two years ago as a way to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, bu…
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on “Show HN: I recreated the Fallout hack minigame. Shows posts from my blog on win”Submitted Simulating Operational Amplifier Saturation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Staying Up Late as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You only have to be good enough as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic Responsive Images on Jekyll Without Plugins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I recreated the Fallout hack minigame. Shows posts from my blog on win as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Student's Experience with Depression as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Comparison of Text Resizing Libraries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kuala Lumpur: Kinda Lousy? as a story · 1 points
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