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Marcus Wong
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Marcus Wong writes Waking up in Geelong, a personal blog at wongm.com about history and programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, 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 Marcus Wong's blog for posts on Melbourne public transport, Adelaide Airport approach lighting and Windows CE in ticketing systems. Commenters cite the posts as examples and do not comment on the writing.
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.
Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd.
Most-linked posts?
- Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-04
What Hacker News says?
A terrible example of relying on colour includes the braille at some Melbourne train stations[1]. It appears that someone directly translated the phrase "Press green button" rather than using left or right. [1] http://wongm.com/2014/06/asking-vision-impaired-to-push-gree...
Comment linking /2014/06/asking-vision-impaired-to-push-green-button/
on “3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?”Submitted Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport as a story · 311 points
HN discussionThe photo from the plane perspective[0] looks surreal… almost like someone superimposed the approach lights onto the residential block. Very impressive, in its way! [0] https://wongm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Adelaide-Approa...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Adelaide-Approach-Runway-23-airportelectrical.com_.au_.jpg
on “Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport”I don't think it quite counts because they aren't disguised per se, but they are in plane sight: Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport [1]. https://wongm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Adelaide-Approa... [1] https://wongm.com/2022/04/backyard-approaching-lighting-adel...
Comment linking /2022/04/backyard-approaching-lighting-adelaide-airport/
on “Oil Wells Hidden in Plain Sight in L.A”Melbourne's public transport ticket scanning machines are running on Windows CE... hope (but doubt) they have a plan. https://wongm.com/2012/06/myki-runs-on-top-of-windows-ce/
Comment linking /2012/06/myki-runs-on-top-of-windows-ce/
on “End of an Era: Windows CE's final day”
