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Josh Carter
Personal blog · joshcarter.comprogrammingcareer
Josh Carter's personal blog at joshcarter.com covers programming and career. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Before General Magic there was Paradigm (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-21, 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 Josh Carter's site for his General Magic history: Magic Cap handheld concept art and device galleries, and an IRC client he wrote for the company's handhelds. The comments cite it as a source, without judging the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Before General Magic there was Paradigm (2018)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-05-03
What Hacker News says?
Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worked at General Magic, and wrote my own IRC client [1] for our handheld devices. I attached a Metricom wireless modem to the bottom of mine and could be on IRC from anywhere ; it was like…
Comment linking /magic_cap/cujochat
on “Irssi 1.0.0 Released”Submitted Dear Programming Job Applicants (2010) as a story · 101 points
HN discussionI worked there for 5 years, and I maintain some historical artifacts from the time, including a gallery of Magic Cap handheld devices and some interesting concept art from Magic's very early days: http://joshcarter.com/magic_cap/
Comment linking /magic_cap/
on “A new documentary on the downfall of General Magic”Submitted Before General Magic there was Paradigm (2018) as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted SVN vs. Mercurial vs. Git For Managing Your Home Directory as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corporate Myths as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before iPhone, Apple's internal project called “Paradigm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Intel stack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before General Magic There Was Paradigm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problem Inversion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Not a [Insert Language Here] Programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design and Magic Cap (2000) [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before General Magic There Was Paradigm (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Function and parameters on the Intel stack as a story · 1 points
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