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nutcroft is a personal blog at nutcroft.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Allthevaccines.org (6th Jan 2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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22mentions?
7HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

A commenter in an IndieWeb discovery thread got this blog's goodbye post as a random page. The post announces the author is closing the blog, with no further content about the writing.

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.

croft: traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon

Most-linked posts?

  1. Allthevaccines.org (6th Jan 2022)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://nutcroft.com/ Text-focused and blog-oriented.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  2. Submitted Should We Celebrate Acquisitions? as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  3. I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is: I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring abou…

    Comment linking /blog/in-defense-of-user-defined-web-fonts/

    on “Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists”
  4. Submitted In defense of user-defined web fonts as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  5. Mataroa offers syntax highlighting. Example: https://nutcroft.com/blog/building-mataroa-blog/

    Comment linking /blog/building-mataroa-blog/

    on “Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists”
  6. Submitted Allthevaccines.org (6th Jan 2022) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. The first random blog post that I got served was this one: https://nutcroft.com/blog/goodbye/ > [...] And now this blog goes too. So, goodbye! Oh well

    Comment linking /blog/goodbye/

    on “Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time”
  8. Submitted Against Adult Supremacy as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. The Burnout Society is probably one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read. I tried to crystalise its essence as well [1], in a chapter-structure way. The book talks about many things that were on the edge of my eyes. I knew them, yet I hadn't realised they were there; that they were a thing. I hadn't realised it was us who introduced them. This is the definition of Castoriadis' imaginary [2][3]. I'd recommend The…

    Comment linking /blog/book-the-burnout-society-by-byung-chul-han/

    on “The Burnout Society”
  10. Submitted Revolut: 7 Years Later as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Creator here, I also wrote a blog post with some back story about the project: https://nutcroft.com/blog/introducing-allthevaccines-org/

    Comment linking /blog/introducing-allthevaccines-org/

    on “Show HN: Allthevaccines.org – Information about all human vaccines”
  12. Submitted The ideal blog platform – nutcroft as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. https://nutcroft.com/ Software, society, philosophy.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  14. Submitted Fight Club Has the Answers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted A New Startup Lifecycle as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted On AI taking over jobs: The world is based on gifts, not transactions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted An Ontology of Hope as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted For the Joy of Making It as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Responding To: Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Run your own nostr relay as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted From one to many: Self-governed communities in three steps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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