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pretzelhands
Personal blog · pretzelhands.comprogrammingweb
pretzelhands is a personal blog at pretzelhands.com about programming and web. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link pretzelhands' introduction page to explain the author's background, in a thread about his color tool that received no donations. The linked posts are not judged on their 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.
PHP and TypeScript developer. Professional pretzel. Occasional cool thing builder.
What Hacker News says?
I'm currently focused on dusting off my old blog and getting some new posts out. I ended up accidentally building my own (somewhat cursed) static page generator in PHP. It's probably not super portable, but it does the job of taking some Markdown and Mustache files and putting together a site. And since I was super minimalist about it, the site is really fast. So that makes me happy! https://pretzelhands.com
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations as a story · 14 points
HN discussionBefore we flame him too much, just read where he comes from: https://pretzelhands.com/introduction-to-pretzel2018.html Nevertheless, that type of 'tool' is too trivial for me to even think about donating. Actually, I still don't know what it is supposed to do. I mean, okay if you don't know how to read hex-colors you can use the normal dev-tools color pickers or some color picker which suggests other fitting colors,…
Comment linking /introduction-to-pretzel2018.html
on “About the goodwill of people: 4,500 users and 0 donations”Submitted How we made $2,500 by playing Animal Crossing as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted End of Notebag as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build a Telegram Bot in PHP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking the rules to keep programming fun and experimental (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build your own PSR-4 autoloader as a story · 1 points
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