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julian.digital
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julian.digital is a personal blog at julian.digital about productivity and business. Since 2019, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Banking on Status”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link julian.digital for 'The case against conversational interfaces' (2025), a piece arguing against conversational interfaces. One commenter called it a very nice article.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Banking on Status7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-12-03
- The Power of Defaults6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-12-20
- Proof of X5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-08-06
- Signaling as a Service5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-03-28
- A Meta-Layer for Notes4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-04
- Multi-Layered Calendars4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-07-06
- Is This Real Life?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-25
- The case against conversational interfaces3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-27
- Newsletters and Alternative Trade Routes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-27
- AirPods as a Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-19
What Hacker News says?
I’m building a small integration to take scheduled transactions in YNAB and display them in any normal calendar application. I’m hoping to add historical transactions one day as well to help with reconciling. https://calendarforynab.com Any feedback is welcome! I once saw an idea on here[1] about putting a lot more historical information into a calendar, including past activities. It resonated with me and I wondered…
Comment linking /2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)”Submitted The case against conversational interfaces as a story · 279 points
HN discussionThere was a very nice article yesterday titled "The case against conversational interfaces" What do you have to say about that https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversat...
Comment linking /2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/
on “Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot”Submitted Signaling as a Service as a story · 202 points
HN discussionMy pet theory is that it is the data model: everyone must support ical/Exchange and those only support events with a textual description. Events may be a part, but not the only part of a good calender. There is a lot of stuff which could be part of a calender but doesn't necessary fit into the event paradigm: Fuzzy events like the car inspection you are putting of. Transit times - not just the fixed time span you ge…
Comment linking /2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/
on “I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton”Submitted Proof of X as a story · 181 points
HN discussionI agree and practice Points No. 2, 3, and 4, but the main title of the post and Point No. 1 isn’t, at least in my opinion, a good one. If I leave something “unfinished” intentionally when I could have finished it, I would likely not sleep right, eat with ease, talk to other people, so on and so forth. However, I agree that if time is a constraint and the task is “lengthy,” I suggest keeping it to a stage of completi…
Comment linking /2021/12/20/the-power-of-defaults/
on “A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow”Submitted AirPods as a Platform as a story · 128 points
HN discussionSubmitted Superhuman and the Productivity Meta-Layer as a story · 98 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Meta-Layer for Notes as a story · 94 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Ecommerce: The Status Quo as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Power of Defaults as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Banking on Status as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Banking on Status (2020) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proof of X as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case against conversational interfaces as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is This Real Life? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chief Notion Officer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Banking on Status as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Neobanks Should Monetize Status Signaling as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Banking on Status as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is This Real Life? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AirPods as a Platform as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Banking on Status as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is This Real Life? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chief Notion Officer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chief Notion Officer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Meta-Layer for Notes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proof of X as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantified Self Report of My First 5 Weeks in Quarantine as a story · 3 points
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