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localghost
Personal blog · localghost.devwebprogrammingcareer
localghost is a personal blog at localghost.dev about web, programming and career. Since 2019, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link localghost as a personal blog with theme switchers, and as an example of blogging in the IndieWeb scene. Commenters praise its writing and its attention to detail.
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.
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
Most-linked posts?
- Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-03
- Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04
- Engineering Progression for Humans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-17
- This website is for humans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-08
What Hacker News says?
https://localghost.dev/about/ The theme also changes the background of her profile picture. The attention to detail is commendable.
Comment linking /about/
on “This website is for humans”Submitted Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer as a story · 745 points
HN discussionhttps://localghost.dev/robots.txt User-Agent: * Allow: /
Comment linking /robots.txt
on “This website is for humans”Submitted This website is for humans as a story · 657 points
HN discussionThis is a really wonderful blog. Well written, to the point, and has its own personality. I'm taking some notes for my own future blog and enjoyed meeting Penny the dog (virtually): https://localghost.dev/blog/touching-grass-and-shrubs-and-fl...
Comment linking /blog/touching-grass-and-shrubs-and-flowers-and-dog/
on “This website is for humans”Submitted Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019) as a story · 259 points
HN discussionA lot of people are still using them, especially in the IndieWeb scene. I came across this really cool blog last night (click the different theme switchers in the top right) and the author is using one: https://localghost.dev/
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on “No, Blogging Is Not Dying Anytime Soon”Submitted Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website as a story · 242 points
HN discussionSubmitted The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML as a story · 184 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element as a story · 151 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Returning to owning things in a streaming world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Generating, Start Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Website Is for Humans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go to Conferences as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Progression for Humans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Progression for Humans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “AI”, and the trouble with inaccessible SaaS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a website like it's 1999 in 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics as a story · 1 points
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