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Ralph Ammer

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Ralph Ammer's personal blog at ralphammer.substack.com covers design, writing and philosophy. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Ralph Ammer's Substack post 'How to Draw Ideas' on creative drawing and idea generation. One commenter says the blog has other good posts, such as The Creative Switch.

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.

Illustrated inspiration on Drawing, Philosophy, and Design. *100% human — no AI*.

What Hacker News says?

  1. imrat · 2023-01-14Recommends
    Original substack article here: https://ralphammer.substack.com/p/how-to-draw-ideas with a bunch of other good ones too - like The Creative Switch

    Comment linking /p/how-to-draw-ideas

    on “How to Draw Ideas”
  2. Submitted Show Me as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A quick beginner’s guide to drawing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted So This Is a Job? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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