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keith.is
Personal blog · keith.iswebprogramming
keith.is is a personal blog at keith.is about web and programming. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn't)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts are discussed in threads on Glitch ending project hosting and on AI traffic straining open-source projects, including the Erdős problems site and Digital Ocean funding for distros.
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.
Keith's personal blog and digital garden
Most-linked posts?
- The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn't)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-23
- DigitalOcean has $3M for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-18
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, one of their former eng managers said the same > The post carefully avoids calling this an “Our Incredible Journey” moment, but removing project hosting and user profiles is the end of Glitch as a platform. What’s left is essentially a redirect service with some backlinks (hosted on the Fastly Edge Compute Platform™, naturally). You can’t spin the removal of the core product as anything other than what it is:…
Comment linking /blog/the-end-of-glitch-even-though-they-say-it-isnt/
on “We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch”Submitted Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time as a story · 45 points
HN discussionWithin the heterogeneous group “programmers”, those who are benefiting the most from AI are also among the least scrupled (see e.g. Digital Ocean can find $3,000,000.00 in 4 days for DHH’s vibe-coded distro setup scripts[1]), while the most selfless are getting shafted the hardest (see e.g. the same Digital Ocean can’t find $50.00 a month for the open-source developers who build and maintain the distros[1]). 1. http…
Comment linking /post/digitalocean-and-css-tricks/
on “Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught”Submitted DigitalOcean has $3M for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making my blog feel like other people are here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn't) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn't) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn't) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion