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Karan Goel
Personal blog · goel.ioprogrammingculture
Karan Goel's personal blog at goel.io covers programming and culture. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment links to a 2020 post about a personal developer blog's setup: a Jekyll site with no JavaScript, pushed to a home server and run in Docker behind a Tor proxy. The comment does not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a software engineer with a knack for entrepreneurship, privacy, and freedom of information.
What Hacker News says?
Blame DRM: https://goel.io/drm-ownership
Comment linking /drm-ownership
on “Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)”Submitted Please Pay for Your News as a story · 37 points
HN discussionYes, I wrote about this not too long ago: https://goel.io/drm-ownership The issue is that they are selling you something to "buy", when really you are renting. They are lying and deceiving. No one's going to hold them accountable.
Comment linking /drm-ownership
on “Amazon Argues Users Don't Own Purchased Prime Video Content”Submitted Ownership in the Age of DRM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's mine: Jekyll blog with no js. Git push to my home server [1]. It runs in a docker container with a watch. The simplicity means adding a tor proxy in front was as easy as running another container. [1] https://goel.io/blog-2020
Comment linking /blog-2020
on “The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020”Submitted Privacy advocates are failing to respond to the “nothing to hide” argument as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI also wrote about building those club: https://goel.io/nojs-club Someone might find it useful, and hopefully someone from GH takes the constructive criticism.
Comment linking /nojs-club
on “The NoJS Club”Submitted Building NoJS.club as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ownership in the Age of DRM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy advocates are failing to respond to the “nothing to hide” argument as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons I Started Reading 35 Books per Year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons I Started Reading 35 Books per Year (From 5 Books per Year) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bulletproof backups – How I keep my precious data safe (strategy and tools) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Wrong with Your Definition of “Hacker” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Should a Computer Science Student Spend Her Summer? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why My Tweets Are Ephemeral as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons I Started Reading 35 Books per Year (From 5 Books per Year) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons I Started Reading 35 Books per Year (From 5 Books per Year) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Ending my GitHub Streak after 844 Days (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 7 Rules for Writing Software That Won’t Die When You Do as a story · 1 points
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