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Joel Hawksley
Personal blog · hawksley.org · on HN as hawksleyprogrammingcareer
Joel Hawksley's personal blog at hawksley.org covers programming and career. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joel Hawksley's blog for his talks and notes on GitHub's UI history, such as the past, present and future of GitHub's interface, and for a write-up on modding a Ubiquiti camera.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Joel Hawksley is a software engineer based in Colorado.
Most-linked posts?
- I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-18
- Beyond Senior: Consider the staff path2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-16
What Hacker News says?
In answer to my own question about in-depth decision making, I just found this presentation from February 2025 by seven-year GitHub veteran Joel Hawksley: https://hawksley.org/2025/02/10/lessons-from-5-years-of-ui-a... Relevant quote: > But beyond accessibility and availability, there is also a growing expectation of GitHub being more app-like. > The first case of this was when we rebuilt GitHub projects. Customers…
Comment linking /2025/02/10/lessons-from-5-years-of-ui-architecture-at-github.html
on “Migrating Dillo from GitHub”Submitted The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSlide ?42? ( https://hawksley.org/img/posts/2025-01-08-past-present-futur... ) also hints at some level of disconnect, what's the number of users accessing GitHub via Linux?
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on “The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub”Submitted I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIndeed, that was one of the posts I stumbled upon when I started building this. There's also another one which I found interesting ( https://hawksley.org/2025/02/20/my-ubiquiti-unifi-protect-bi... ) as it documented the way to mod a G5 camera to set the focal length as someone on Reddit also documented before.
Comment linking /2025/02/20/my-ubiquiti-unifi-protect-bird-nest-camera-setup.html
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)”Submitted Beyond Senior: Consider the staff path as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adopting Herb at GitHub as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond Senior: Consider the staff path as a story · 1 points
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