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Open and Shut?
Personal blog · poynder.blogspot.comprogrammingculture
Open and Shut? is a personal blog at poynder.blogspot.com about programming and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Poynder's blog for its interviews with open-source and internet figures, including Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart and Eric Raymond. The comments cite these interviews as sources.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Good interview: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-michael-h... (Link at the end to a pdf with interview). I was curious about how he funded this project. Excerpt from interview: RP: Do you get a salary from the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, which was founded, I believe, in 2000? MH: No. We don't attract enough funding for that. RP: So what do you live on today? MH: It's been two yea…
Comment linking /2006/03/interview-with-michael-hart.html
on “Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, Project Gutenberg Founder”Submitted Of Citizenship and Software, interview about a new online course as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> "he sure sounds math literate" This is the standard ESR parlor trick. Eric took several courses in math and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/interview-with-eric-raym... "As a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania Raymond was immediately marked out as a potential math prodigy. Having found school insufficiently stretching for his above average talents, however,…
Comment linking /2006/03/interview-with-eric-raymond.html
on “NTPsec is not quite a full rewrite”