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Johnny Rodgers
Personal blog · johnnyrodgers.isdesignculturewriting
Johnny Rodgers's personal blog at johnnyrodgers.is covers design, culture and writing. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Building a modern home in the woods”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Johnny Rodgers' posts on climate change, burnout, the shutdown of Glitch and the start of Slack, and building a home in the woods, as sources or examples in their own comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m a technology designer and programmer from Vancouver, Canada. This site collects the things I do and the things I write about.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a modern home in the woods2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-03
- Burnout2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-28
What Hacker News says?
I did that and found: https://johnnyrodgers.is/On-Earth I honestly cannot connect the person who wrote the above with the one who designed and built what is an absurdly inefficient unnatural mansion in what used to be some pristine wilderness. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
Comment linking /On-Earth
on “Building a modern home in the woods”Submitted Building a modern home in the woods as a story · 535 points
HN discussionGoogle "climate change site: https://johnnyrodgers.is/ "
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on “Building a modern home in the woods”Submitted Burnout as a story · 247 points
HN discussionGlitch the game never even showed up on my radar. Too bad (or maybe, for the best) it was never something I heard about. So I had to do some googling for what seemed like a pretty obscure thing that morphed into a huge thing that takes up way too much of my brainpower these days, and found this story about the shutdown of Glitch and the start of Slack https://johnnyrodgers.is/The-death-of-Glitch-the-birth-of-Sl...
Comment linking /The-death-of-Glitch-the-birth-of-Slack
on “Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)”Submitted Building a Modern Home as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIntroduce this article: https://johnnyrodgers.is/burnout Each section subtitle is displayed as a sentence. Could you maybe ML generate a 1 sentence summary for section? I don't think there is an ML which could extract the take aways from each section and make a summary correctly, but that was my original expectation when I saw it first time.
Comment linking /burnout
on “Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click”