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Oliver Gilan

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Oliver Gilan's personal blog at olivergilan.com covers ai, programming and career. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Cloud Hasn't Been Won”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

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

Why HN links it

Linked as a personal website and blog. One commenter describes it as essays posted occasionally to build a writing habit, with a planned post on chronic illness as a software engineer.

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.

Dreams are the language of God.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Cloud Hasn't Been Won
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://olivergilan.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  2. Submitted The Cloud hasn't been Won as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://olivergilan.com Just a personal blog with some essays that I post occasionally to get myself in the habit of writing. My next post will be about living with chronic illness as a SWE and how to get through it

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  4. Submitted The Cloud Hasn't Been Won as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted AI Hasn't Helped Most Engineers (Yet) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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