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neilalexander.dev is a personal blog at neilalexander.dev about programming, systems and ai. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in an XMPP server thread as the SeaGlass project page, a Matrix client. Comments discuss its design and the state of Riot/RiotX clients, without judging the writing itself.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /seaglass
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-13
  2. Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. balladeer · 2019-05-14
    Thanks. Will check RiotX on my work Android phone and will wait for the design philosophy to move to iOS. > https://neilalexander.dev/seaglass This looked really good when I tried last but it was really unstable and lacking features. Will check again. PS. That link isn't working - this one does https://github.com/neilalexander/seaglass

    Comment linking /seaglass

    on “A free XMPP server powered with green energy”
  2. signa11 · 2026-08-28

    Submitted Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV as a story · 213 points

    HN discussion
  3. Arathorn · 2019-05-13
    Riot/iOS is already native, and works pretty well, so will likely evolve to behave more like RiotX as time goes on rather than getting rewritten. RiotX is trying to be something that starts off feeling like WhatsApp or Telegram, but can expand into IRC/Discord/Slack for powerusers. Who knows if it'll work. For native desktop apps, there are a bunch of other Matrix clients focused specifically on that domain - e.g. h…

    Comment linking /seaglass

    on “A free XMPP server powered with green energy”
  4. lr0 · 2026-08-27

    Submitted Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. neilalexander · 2020-06-02

    Submitted Thoughts on Peer-to-Peer Matrix as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. signa11 · 2021-08-31

    Submitted Go is pass-by-value – but it might not always feel like it – neilalexander.dev as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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