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Manton Reece
Personal blog · manton.orgprogrammingwriting
Manton Reece's personal blog at manton.org covers programming and writing. Since 2009, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “A great developer can come from anywhere”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Manton Reece's blog is linked in HN threads on blogging platforms, including WordPress Gutenberg, Micro.blog announcements, RSS, and Twitter's features. Commenters cite his posts as sources or corrections.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A great developer can come from anywhere2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-22
- We will survive Google Zero2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-05
- Anchor on free podcasting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-23
What Hacker News says?
Looks like it's Jekyll http://www.manton.org/2017/07/5463.html
Comment linking /2017/07/5463.html
on “Apple Machine Learning Journal”Submitted Twitter to decentralize something as a story · 173 points
HN discussionGutenberg makes blogging actually very difficult. You can’t just write because everything is a block or some other element … https://www.manton.org/2018/10/23/wordpresss-gutenberg-vs.ht...
Comment linking /2018/10/23/wordpresss-gutenberg-vs.html
on “Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?”Submitted Indexing the hidden web as a story · 56 points
HN discussionYou are confusing them with Dreamhost: http://www.manton.org/2011/03/brent_on_baked.html
Comment linking /2011/03/brent_on_baked.html
on ““We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack””Submitted Where Apple went wrong with free apps as a story · 54 points
HN discussionOfficial announcement (that gets straight to the point): https://www.manton.org/2025/11/11/microblog-studio.html
Comment linking /2025/11/11/microblog-studio.html
on “Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting”Submitted Micro.blog Reclaiming Usernames Policy as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> Here's a stream of standard.site blog posts coming in over a firehose hosted in Chennai. Every single one. This stream lacks any blog posts that haven't been specifically published to atproto. Conversely, I see RSS feeds for the content in the stream, like https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:byf7jvh3yvhffackiumpddtf/rs... (if RSS feeds exists for every profiles then I'd argue that atproto is a strict subset of RSS, b…
Comment linking /2024/03/11/recommendations-and-blogrolls.html
on “Select * from Internet.blogposts”Submitted [What Do You Get in Return for the] App Store 30% cut as a story · 7 points
HN discussion>> "A blog post has to have a title." nah https://www.manton.org/2017/05/30/182107.html Titles were always optional. Still are. >> "Asymmetric relationships. On twitter you can follow someone, and they can follow you back or not." That's RSS, or any of the myriad following systems on BBSes since time immemorial. Starting off with a list of unique features that are not, in fact, unique isn't a great sign for the rest…
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on “The Tragedy of Twitter”Submitted iCloud is too opaque as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manton Reece: I hope iAd fails as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted We will survive Google Zero as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Needs a Flop as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Micro.blog now free for teachers and nurses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My tweets from 17 years ago often had no faves, no replies, and no retweets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's welcome Meta, not block them as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A great developer can come from anywhere as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The iPad Pro is the new iPod Photo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI news without using X as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is Inkwell stuck in review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We will survive Google Zero as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CTF applies to every install of a marketplace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving away from App Store-focused development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anchor on free podcasting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift 3 churn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Today’s social networks are broken as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RSS for microblogs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift – I think it’s a bust as a story · 2 points
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