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Nolan Caudill

Personal blog · nolancaudill.com · on HN as mncaudillwritingprogramming

Nolan Caudill writes nolan caudill's internet house, a personal blog at nolancaudill.com about writing and programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Thoughts on Pagination”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
4HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers cite Nolan Caudill's post 'The Front Line' as evidence that Flickr has been losing its core staff and is in decline. The post is used as a source in that argument.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

nolan caudill's internet house

The author on HN?

mncaudill · 583 karma · member since 2008

nolan@nolancaudill.com https://nolancaudill.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Thoughts on Pagination
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-27
  2. Yahoo Lays Off Flickr Support Staff
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wrote a post about how to do these multi-lingual quines a while back: https://nolancaudill.com/2011/01/01/how-to-build-a-quine/

    Comment linking /2011/01/01/how-to-build-a-quine/

    on “Quine Relay”
  2. Submitted Yahoo Lays Off Flickr Support Staff as a story · 203 points

    HN discussion
  3. Coincidentally, I felt compelled to write a bunch of words about the issues with pagination just this past weekend. http://nolancaudill.com/2012/03/24/pagination/

    Comment linking /2012/03/24/pagination/

    on “Coding Horror: The End of Pagination”
  4. Submitted Thoughts about Twitter as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  5. Having been around conversations with some of the old Flickr people, I have to disagree. It's definitely sinking, and has been slowly gutted over the past few years. This is only the most recent piece of news: http://nolancaudill.com/2012/01/30/the-front-line/ All of the core Flickr people have left, and some (like Aaron Straup Cope) are starting to build their own: http://straup.github.com/parallel-flickr/ http://w…

    Comment linking /2012/01/30/the-front-line/

    on “Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users”
  6. Submitted How to Build a Quine as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Here's a PHP->C->Python->JavaScript->original PHP quine I wrote a few weeks ago: https://gist.github.com/749686 And here's a little write-up on how I approached the problem: https://nolancaudill.com/2011/01/01/how-to-build-a-quine/

    Comment linking /2011/01/01/how-to-build-a-quine/

    on “My Adventure Writing My First Quine in Java”
  8. Submitted Thoughts on Pagination as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Fewer Features Is A Feature as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Summer of Radiators and Incidental Complexity as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Fear as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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