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Joseph Combs
Personal blog · josephecombs.comprogrammingweb
Joseph Combs's personal blog at josephecombs.com covers programming and web. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by commenters as a personal blog and resume site. Its posts cover adding emoji support to MySQL and Rails with utf8mb4, building a static Jekyll blog on S3, and an HTML and CSS resume.
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.
This is my personal website. I will write blog posts here on occasion.
What Hacker News says?
I wrote about supporting emojis in Ruby on Rails / MySQL here: https://josephecombs.com/2018/05/06/how-to-support-emojis-wi...
Comment linking /2018/05/06/how-to-support-emojis-with-rails-elasticbeanstalk-and-amazon-aurora
on “In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)”Submitted Show HN: How to Make an AWS S3 Static Website with SSL as a story · 96 points
HN discussioncool - I use just HTML and CSS for mine as part of my jekyll blog: https://josephecombs.com/resume/
Comment linking /resume/
on “Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy”Submitted Hey Siri, Make Me a Million Dollars as a story · 1 points
HN discussionself-hosted jekyll in an s3 bucket. I detailed how I set this up here: https://www.josephecombs.com/2018/03/05/how-to-make-an-AWS-S...
Comment linking /2018/03/05/how-to-make-an-AWS-S3-static-website-with-ssl
on “Ask HN: What is your blogging platform of choice in 2018?”Submitted Show HN: How to Support Emojis with Rails and Amazon Aurora (MySQL) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion