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Rambles Blog at Star Chamber
Personal blog · starchamber.comprogrammingproductivityculture
Rambles Blog at Star Chamber is a personal blog at starchamber.com about programming, productivity and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked context is a comment on an 'A New Ideas Machine' thread about X-Prize-style goals, which the blog's posts appear to discuss. The comment does not assess the writing itself.
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.
What Hacker News says?
My problem with the X-Prize concept is the also the strength of the X-Prize concept -- the magnitude of the goal. For something like an "X-Prize for Everything" to be truly be a successful there have to be goals that are reachable at all size levels. So instead of just a grand goal, there could be smaller goals, that are published, have awards, and all of it should be open sourced/licensed. There was research on a w…
Comment linking /gulley/pubs/tweaking/tweaking.html
on “A New Ideas Machine”Submitted Simple guide to writing Elvish as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tool spinning, task boxing and the trade-off between usability and learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The era of the irrepressible teacher as a story · 1 points
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