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Personal blog · qword.net · on HN as qwordprogrammingcultureother

QWORD is a personal blog at qword.net about programming and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Calculus rules everything around me (2023)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

Thoughts about how the world works, from a technologist.

The author on HN?

qword · 147 karma · member since 2023

https://www.qword.net

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Calculus rules everything around me (2023)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-12
  2. Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://www.qword.net Discussions on HN: LSD: Not even once (337 points, 330 comments) https://www.qword.net/2023/04/23/lsd-not-even-once-really https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679911 Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext (177 points, 141 comments) https://www.qword.net/2023/04/30/maybe-you-should-store-pass... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35766897 Calculus rules everything around me https://w…

    Comment linking /2023/06/11/calc-rules-everything

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  2. Submitted LSD: Not Even Once. Really. as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Calculus rules everything around me (2023) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Maybe you should store your passwords in plaintext (2023) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The use and abuse of the dev branch as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Calculus rules everything around me as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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