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Rob Ennals

Personal blog · messyprogress.substack.comaiculture

Rob Ennals writes Messy Progress, a personal blog at messyprogress.substack.com about ai and culture. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Easy Robotics with a 3D Printer and Raspberry Pi”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Writing about how Technology and Society shape each other.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Easy Robotics with a 3D Printer and Raspberry Pi
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-10
  2. GPT Is Rather Good at Feed Ranking
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Going Phoneless as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Using Codex Well (Experiences so far) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Easy Robotics with a 3D Printer and Raspberry Pi as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Easy Robotics with a 3D Printer and Raspberry Pi as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted GPT Is Rather Good at Feed Ranking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Chatbots make search interesting again as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Virtue Is a Vector as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted GPT Is Rather Good at Feed Ranking as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Pro-Social Platforms That Didn't Work as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Eight Pro-Social Platforms That Didn't Work as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Free Speech Is the Wrong Problem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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