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Personal blog · notcheckmark.comprogrammingaisecurity
⍻ is a personal blog at notcheckmark.com about programming, ai and security. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Stop publishing conference videos”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on a decade of custom-username catch-all email addresses, which received no spam. The author says the setup was a waste of time and is trying to undo it.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Stop publishing conference videos2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-04
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a blog post[1] about my experiences with custom usernames and how I regret it. It was previously covered on HN here[2]. I came to the same conclusion as you, but additionally decided it has been a major waste of time and I'm slowly trying to undo it [1] https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/06/catch-all-domain/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585463
Comment linking /2022/06/catch-all-domain/
on “Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam”Submitted Using a catch-all domain is a mistake as a story · 255 points
HN discussionYou can introduce a dark theme for HN without feature flags or CSS upload. Support for `prefers-color-scheme` is widely supported in all the browsers[1]. It's how I handle it on my blog[2], I just swap out the colors based on the css selector. 1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... 2: https://www.notcheckmark.com
Comment linking /
on “Please add a "dark" theme for Hacker News”Submitted Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI as a story · 203 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ghost in the Shellcode as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop publishing conference videos as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted They will force you, open source maintainers, to drink the gasoline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop publishing conference videos (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion