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Julian Gough

Personal blog · juliangough.com/journalwritingculture

Julian Gough's personal blog at juliangough.com covers writing and culture. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Julian Gough's personal site for its short stories and a lost Apple anecdote, "The iHole". Comments only point to these posts and ask where to find them, 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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Anybody have a pointer to the "iHole" story mentioned in the article? It seems to have been purged not just from the author's website, but archive.* as well. https://www.juliangough.com/the-ihole-in-original-apple-fl/

    Comment linking /the-ihole-in-original-apple-fl/

    on “Microsoft doesn't own the ending to Minecraft”
  2. Submitted An open letter [from Julian Gough] to Johnathan Ive (and Apple) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. A transcript of the short story can also be found here: http://www.juliangough.com/the-great-hargeisa-goat-bubble/

    Comment linking /the-great-hargeisa-goat-bubble/

    on “The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble (2009)”

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