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Joe Siegler
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Joe Siegler writes A Cup of Joe, a personal blog at joesiegler.blog about games and history. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joe Siegler's first-person history of the Aardwolf secret, a Wolfenstein 3D Easter egg and contest, and one commenter calls it a great account of the story.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-05
What Hacker News says?
Here's the path through the Aardwolf Maze that id tech support would fax to callers who asked about it: https://joesiegler.blog/images/aardwolf_maze.jpg And a great first-person (lol) history of the secret/Easter egg/contest by Joe Siegler: https://joesiegler.blog/2016/08/call-apogee-and-say-aardwolf...
Comment linking /2016/08/call-apogee-and-say-aardwolf/
on “Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat”Submitted History of Apogee/3D Realms (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Joe Siegler: My Story of Apogee / 3D Realms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Call Apogee and Say Aardwolf (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion