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Manuel Moreale
Personal blog · manuelmoreale.com · on HN as manuelmorealewebwriting
Manuel Moreale's personal blog at manuelmoreale.com covers web and writing. Since 2019, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “List of Blog Platforms”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
After hiking up to the end of the ridge, it was now time to scout the initial part. The starting point is some 25km east of where I parked the car …
Most-linked posts?
- List of Blog Platforms4 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
- People and Blogs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-08-25
- Look, Another AI Browser3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-22
- I'll Read It2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-09
- The Web I Want2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-26
- A Minimal Email Client2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-24
- More new mindsets, fewer new technologies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-05
What Hacker News says?
https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/look-another-ai-browser not what vast majority of the people on HN say
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on “ChatGPT Atlas”Submitted The correct amount of ads is zero as a story · 860 points
HN discussionhttps://manuelmoreale.com First time I have a site I’m happy with.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Look, Another AI Browser as a story · 226 points
HN discussionIf you want to see what others are doing I'm slowly collecting all the blog platforms available here: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms Good luck with the project!
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted A Minimal Email Client as a story · 163 points
HN discussionI’d not use Wordpress personally. Luckily for you, there are plenty of options: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
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on “Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog”Submitted Growth is a mind cancer as a story · 113 points
HN discussionManuel maintains a list of (low-fuss) blogging platforms: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
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on “Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog”Submitted Thoughts on the New iOS Control Centre as a story · 99 points
HN discussion1. Can you send me your blog? If you don’t want to post it here my email is on my profile. I’m always interested in reading other people’s blogs[0] 2. I think it’s a matter of being proactive. I treat blog-to-blog interactions the same way I treat person-to-person interactions. If you want the connection to happen you have to be willing to act. Which is why I often send emails, share thoughts on what they wrote, may…
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on “Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (2021)”Submitted Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button as a story · 54 points
HN discussionDo it! You’ll have a bunch of people happy to read it: https://manuelmoreale.com/i-ll-read-it
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on “Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?”Submitted I don't know how to browse the internet anymore as a story · 42 points
HN discussionMine is still there. He decided to actually die inside my monitor https://manuelmoreale.com/a-moment-with-a-hardware-bug
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on “Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022)”Submitted It's time to give up on everything but email as a story · 24 points
HN discussion> I've been using it for decades now but these days, I almost always pause for a second. Wrote about this before [0] but my 2c: you shouldn't pause and you should keep using them because fuck these companies and their AI tools. We should not give them the power to dictate how we write. [0]: https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-em-dashes
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on “ai;dr”Submitted A rant on web font licenses as a story · 18 points
HN discussionYears ago I wrote [0] about the lessons I learned by reaching the front page of both HN and Product Hunt and honestly, all these years later, the only thing I can confidently say is that I don't know shit. Sometimes people posts here things I wrote and for one reason or another they gain traction. I personally have no clue why and I kinda like it. Like probably many others I come here to find interesting content and…
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on “Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?”Submitted Build a User-Focused Website as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> I still think a sketchpad and a pen is the best way to generate ideas. Couldn’t agree more. When I’m not working on a design that’s been passed to me by a designer I usually “design” on paper [0] and I still think it’s the fastest way to work through my ideas. I then jump from there straight to the browser. But this is obviously an unsustainable workflow if you work in a team. [0] https://manuelmoreale.com/how-to-…
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on “Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?”Submitted Values, Morals, and Doing Business as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot sure which one’s the ideal tool but I’m slowly collecting them all here: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
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on “Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?”Submitted Dealgorithmed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSuch a great resource.It’s incredibly valuable for me personally since I’m always hunting for new blogs and new people to interview for my series. I also interviewed Phil, the creator of ooh back in February: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-phil-gyford
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on “A collection of 2,299 blogs about every topic”Submitted RIP my minimal phone setup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy friend’s https://cmhb.de/ and then I’ll shamelessly add in mine https://manuelmoreale.com/
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on “Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?”Submitted List of Blog Platforms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGuestbooks are already back! I have a bunch collected here on my site and I keep discovering new ones: https://manuelmoreale.com/guestbook Webrings are also still a thing! https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm
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on “The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here?”Submitted On the State of the Web as a story · 4 points
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