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Josh Archer
Personal blog · josharcher.uk/blogwritingphilosophy
Josh Archer's personal blog at josharcher.uk covers writing and philosophy. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link Josh Archer's site for a hosted copy of Ted Kaczynski's manifesto and for a guide to installing a ScanSnap S1300i scanner driver on Linux. None of the comments judge the author's own writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /static/files/2018/01/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future-Ted_Kaczynski.txt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-16
What Hacker News says?
These two posts were useful to me: https://mondaybynoon.com/linux-font-equivalents-to-popular-w... http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html I used them when sorting the fonts for my site as I wasn't happy with the web font performance and switched to 'web safe'. There are some good comparisons there. You can see my choice in action here: https://josharcher.uk
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on “Web fonts, boy, I don't know”Submitted I hate sharing what I create, but I can't stop doing it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have a somewhat similar system but without writing anything in the book, because I use ebooks, and it's not quite as intensive. An example is here[0] but basically I keep notes on: Places Things Characters Plot Nothing too long and it's all filled in in a few seconds in an Evernote notebook/note as I read along. The main reason this is effective for me is that I can very quickly look up a character/place/plot in o…
Comment linking /blog/diaspora-greg-egan-book-review/
on “A system to help you remember more of what you read”Submitted Motivation is dangerous as a story · 1 points
HN discussionKnew it was coming, but still kinda annoying right in the middle: https://josharcher.uk/categories/lpthw/
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on “Learn Python 3 the Hard Way”I wasn't sure it would be enough on my own site so I put a notice in the footer notifying that some rights are reserved and then linking to a page that specifically breaks down content by section and the license terms applied: https://www.josharcher.uk/copyright/ Perhaps as you mention it's necessary to publish more explicit notices alongside content. But perhaps not. This ruling seems to relate to data, possibly di…
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on “Web scraping case fails under Supreme Court's Dastar doctrine”It's not everyday I quote Ted Kaczynski, but I think he had a valid point when, in his manifesto, he theorise that no amount of regulation is capable of making us safe from technological abuse. 125 - 135 from: https://www.josharcher.uk/static/files/2018/01/Industrial_So... . > It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force a…
Comment linking /static/files/2018/01/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future-Ted_Kaczynski.txt
on “Police fine pedestrian for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face”I did. And wrote about it[0]. And I'm not a techno-optimist but you won't find much to truly learn in the manifesto if you are one. The manifesto is far more about 'control' than it is about technology. He spreads the blame to the Left, the Over-Socialized, the 'Elite' and technology - with thinly veiled stopover at the 'stupid' too. And by 'control' he doesn't simply mean control through technology, it's about Kacz…
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on ““Industrial Society and its Future”: the writings of the Unabomber”Just what the doctor ordered! I'm just starting out[1] and recognise all of these points, especially number 4 even though on first glance it might seem the wrong attitude. Every time I run into something new I feel the need to 'fully' understand it before moving on. With such a vast corpus of information out there and a lifetimes worth of skill development in just one particular branch (database admin anyone?) I hav…
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on “Tales of coding from a beginner”I can add to the sample size here and have found similar results. I wrote an SEO test piece a while ago which inadvertently became quite popular[0] (and did rank well for the targeted terms). In updating it recently (couple months ago) I found many of the links simply 404'd, not even any redirect at all. Wikipedia was pretty bad for this too as the author found. I took to hosting all the files I linked to myself to…
Comment linking /blog/why-margaret-thatcher-is-hated/
on “Link rot and redirect madness”This is well done. If you want it 'done for you' or have a site that doesn't fit in the free tier on GAE but don't want to spend money - take a look at Netlify. Free tier is generous, has CDN, free auto-provisioned SSL, builds automatically from a git repo (GitHUb/GitLab etc) and you can simply upload a _redirects file to handle redirects[0]. It'll even build a 'preview' of a branch, so just create a branch, make yo…
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on “Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects”I have a ScanSnap S1300i which I use with Linux. It is portable and eats A4 pages, receipts or whatever very easily. Here is the guide i followed when installing: https://www.josharcher.uk/code/install-scansnap-s1300-driver...
Comment linking /code/install-scansnap-s1300-drivers-linux/
on “Finding Linux Compatible Printers”I wrote about this too, a long time ago and perhaps a bit more directly[0] I didn't write much since, mostly because I have been achieving the goals I set myself and returning to write things on my blog is not one of those current goals. So I think what I had to say worked, for me at least. [0] https://www.josharcher.uk/blog/motivation-is-dangerous/
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on “Screw motivation, what you need is discipline”> Who exactly are you talking about? It's very common in both alternative/anti-idpol left wing (stuidpol/Redscare) and contrarian/non-MAGA right wing subreddits. He provided one of the best and most relevant-to-today critiques of the progressive virtue-signalling strain of American liberalism that's very popular today. > What specifically from him do you like the most? These three parts in Chapter 1 always stuck in…
Comment linking /static/files/2018/01/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future-Ted_Kaczynski.txt
on a deleted threadI gave it a go just for the immigration figures[0]. Though I stripped it back to mostly plain data and nothing as extensive as this post. I did this because a lively discussion sharing all sorts of random data was taking place between my friends, most of whom were simply pushing a biased narrative for once side of the other. I parsed some of the plain data from the ONS and all it lead to was killing the debate dead.…
Comment linking /blog/brexit-eu-referendum-uk-immigration-figures-2016/
on “You Are Still Crying Wolf”