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Reilly Wood
Personal blog · reillywood.com/blog · on HN as ripley12programmingai
Reilly Wood's personal blog at reillywood.com covers programming and ai. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “APIs don't make good MCP tools”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post lists mistakes in the design of CSS. The only comment asks what the alternative to CSS would be, without directly praising or criticising the 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.
My personal blog. Mostly computer and urbanism stuff.
Most-linked posts?
- APIs don't make good MCP tools3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07
- /blog/windows-ui-frameworks/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-18
- Tool Calls Are Expensive and Finite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-19
What Hacker News says?
I've written a bit about how I use Aider: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/how-i-use-llms-sep-2024/ It's not magic, but it is very useful. I find that it works best if you have a commit-sized piece of work in mind; something that might take you half an hour but can be described in a few sentences.
Comment linking /blog/how-i-use-llms-sep-2024/
on “Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week”Submitted Linux .NET Development in 2019: What You Need to Know as a story · 8 points
HN discussionShameless plug: I did the same thing to my personal website and wrote about it with light/dark screenshots: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/dark-mode/ I like working in Solarized Dark, so I wanted my website to serve up Solarized Dark. I dim images in dark mode too, but I turn them up to full brightness on hover.
Comment linking /blog/dark-mode/
on “Dark mode in a website with CSS”Submitted APIs don't make good MCP tools as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> they have no project template in Visual Studio that would let you write a service that can run as a service on both Windows and Linux I have lots of complaints about the state of the .NET ecosystem, but thankfully this one is pretty easy IMO. Basically just use the `dotnet new worker` .NET Core template; it scaffolds a project using the ASP.NET Core generic host, which can easily (a NuGet package and 1 line of cod…
Comment linking /blog/dotnet-linux
on “.NET 5.0 – New APIs”Submitted Land Values and Affordability as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNo, it's not a generational thing. WPF hasn't had significant feature updates in the last 10 years, because MS abandoned it in favour of UWP. I wrote a bit about this recently: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/windows-ui-frameworks/
Comment linking /blog/windows-ui-frameworks/
on “WPF will be community run project”Submitted Tool Calls Are Expensive and Finite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat's the alternative? The 1990s style HTML form app that works like a green screen mainframe application? (It seems to be forgotten technology in the age of React like Stonehenge or the Egyptian Pyramids but I think it's quite appropriate for the kind of application it's capable of, which is more > 50% of what people use React for.) Cross-platform frameworks like GTK, Qt, Tk, FLTK, wxWidgets (was that a winner in…
Comment linking /blog/windows-ui-frameworks/
on “Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS”Submitted Tool Calls Are Expensive and Finite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are no great options. I've written a bit about this: https://www.reillywood.com/blog/windows-ui-frameworks/ tl;dr: WinForms is well supported if you don't need it to be pretty. WPF is complex but mature. WinUI 3 might be ready someday but it's not there yet. I don't want to suggest Electron, but there are valid reasons why people use it...
Comment linking /blog/windows-ui-frameworks/
on “WPF Begins Its Long Goodbye”Submitted APIs don't make good MCP tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Nushell? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted APIs Don't Make Good MCP Tools as a story · 1 points
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