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Robert Atkins

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Robert Atkins writes Tumblr, a personal blog at frabjousdei.net about programming and hardware. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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One commenter links a friend's blog post making a proposal called 'RFCs not IPOs'. The commenter calls the proposal true and idealistic but completely impossible.

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  1. twic · 2015-07-19Recommends
    It wouldn't be Hacker News if the one genuinely good comment wasn't downvoted :/. A friend made the same true, idealistic, and completely impossible proposal on his blog: http://frabjousdei.net/post/108191939171/rfcs-not-ipos

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    on “How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity”
  2. Submitted Objective-C is like Jimi Hendrix (2014) as a story · 34 points

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