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Johan Halse
Personal blog · johan.hal.se/wroteprogrammingculture
Johan Halse's personal blog at johan.hal.se covers programming and culture. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Sideprocalypse”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on Show HN being flooded by AI-assisted projects. It argues that vibe-coding and AI threaten the longevity of indie craftsmanship.
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.
Johan Halse. You know, the dude who runs the Internet.
Most-linked posts?
- The Sideprocalypse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-16
What Hacker News says?
it was in this link included in this same story https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
Comment linking /wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
on “Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning”Submitted Care as a story · 269 points
HN discussionIt's reasonably clear from the second sentence in the post that the uptick in submissions can be largely attributed to AI-assisted projects. > The post quickly disappeared from Show HN's first page, amongst the rest of the vibecoded pulp. The linked article[0] also talks at length about the impact of AI and vibe-coding on indie craftsmanship's longevity. [0] - https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
Comment linking /wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
on “Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning”Submitted Hang your code out to DRY as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted David, Please Stop Posting as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do we keep insisting designers learn CSS? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Average as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concatenating Text as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sideprocalypse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Expect from Your Framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
