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Notes from the Burrow
Personal blog · blog.usmanity.comprogrammingculture
Notes from the Burrow is a personal blog at blog.usmanity.com about programming and culture. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Welcome to my blog, a window into my world.
What Hacker News says?
I have had a blog for many years now but I rarely treat it as a way to market myself or gain anything from it except the fact that I can go back and look at something I was working on. At some point, I started writing more about keyboards, nothing crazy, just some I was interested in or when I built my own keyboard and I decided to track all the expenses related to it. It also helped me quickly go back to it and sha…
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on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”Submitted Serving Vue.js Apps on GitHub Pages as a story · 106 points
HN discussionI started paying for Obsidian last month, it was on my annual cancel vs subscribe list [1], I've been happy using Obsidian for almost a year now and paying for Sync was a nice way to enhance my usage and support the team. 1: https://blog.usmanity.com/cancel-vs-subscribe-2024/
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on “100% User-Supported”Submitted Stop Building Stingy Apps as a story · 19 points
HN discussionMy blog is https://blog.usmanity.com I write about things on my mind but mainly the posts consist of project updates, experimenting with new tech, and occasional one-off things. There’s no defined criteria which could be a good thing or bad thing. I recently moved from Wordpress to Ghost.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Ghost has raised prices and removed features for the Starter plan as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI have been blogging at https://blog.usmanity.com for almost 6 years, but I have attempted to keep a blog for almost 10 years. My blog is a lot of personal updates, technical things I'm learning/wanting to teach, and updates on my projects. It helps me realize that even one post a month is enough to keep track of something. My blog isn't very popular mainly b/c I don't market it anywhere, it's mostly used to referen…
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on “Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?”Submitted Importing 25M Books into Bookends as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted JS, creating a new array using the new keyword vs. literal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Formatting Messages in iMessages (In iOS 18) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Chrome extension using Vue.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life without good internet is boring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Subtracting Projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark Mode in 1 Step as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive pricing in App Stores (a suggestion) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on using Dropbox's Paper as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted InstaTab 1.9 update and getting ready for 2.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted InstaTab, a chrome extension for new tabs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for using ng-if and ng-showithng-hide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing the world, one poster at a time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nokia should've sold the Lumia 920 today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nexus 7 locks when close to magnets (possibly for 'smart cases'?) as a story · 1 points
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