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Rodrigo Ghedin
Personal blog · notes.ghed.in/postscultureai
Rodrigo Ghedin writes Manual do Usuário, a personal blog at notes.ghed.in about culture and ai. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “Was this Brazilian major app bypassing Apple's location privacy on iOS?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
English-written tech blog by Rodrigo Ghedin, from Brazil.
Most-linked posts?
- Was this Brazilian major app bypassing Apple's location privacy on iOS?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-31
- MOS brings macOS' smooth scrolling to any mouse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-26
- Substack Is the Biggest Threat to Newsletters Ever2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-19
- Selfishness in AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-14
What Hacker News says?
I'm glad I jump Twitter's sinking ship last week[1]. There's no way for Twitter to have a good outcome as long as Musk in on charge. [1] https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/leaving-twitter/
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on “Paul Graham is leaving Twitter”Submitted The Best iPhone as a story · 573 points
HN discussionI’m a journalist who learnt to make websites back in the day and never bothered with newer, fancier technologies. My background isn’t suited to take on big projects, but I still have lots of fun designing little projects, such as my personal page[1] and weblogs[2]. Bonus point: these websites are always super snappy and easy to navigate. I can’t understand big projects based on React and other technologies that, no…
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on “Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development”Submitted Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media as a story · 129 points
HN discussionI joined the beta test, it's truly awesome and, by far, the best Mastodon app I've tried. A humble review: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/ivory-mastodon-app-review/
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on “Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023”Submitted TCL's bet on screens that look like paper as a story · 117 points
HN discussionMine?[1] Pure HTML/CSS handwritten, no JS, powered by Jekyll. [1] https://notes.ghed.in
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on “How I Built My Blog”Submitted Android features I envy as an iPhone user as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI found it almost a self-parody, probably the best joke Ben Stiller has ever told — a show mocking Apple that runs on an Apple service. Shameless plug: my take on “Severance”: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/severance-apple-marxist-show/
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on “Severance is the workplace thriller we’ve needed”Submitted Plain Text Email as a story · 67 points
HN discussionOn the browser itself? A few months ago I started to rely on Safari's bookmark system only to save long-term pages and temporary ones — for a weekly newsletter of interesting links[1] I publish. It's been working very well. Easier to save (it's built in, after all), within reach all the time thanks do syncing via iCloud, and when I'm at the computer, I appreciate the new(-ish?) Safari sidebar (`Command + Shift + L`)…
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on “Ask HN: Storing and Organizing Bookmarks?”Submitted The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US as a story · 62 points
HN discussionCentralizing stuff in another VC-backed startup is… kind risky[1]? [1] https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/substack-centralization/
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on “Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension”Submitted Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSure, but it's becoming harder to single out machine-generated content. Shameless plug: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/content-machine-revolution/
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on “Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?”Submitted It's Time to Leave Twitter as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI run a good and old tech blog[0] in Brazil for almost a decade. It's been my main income source since 2020, and I'm making more than I did in my last job in a traditional newsroom. I actively avoid programmatic/invasive ads. My three income sources are: subscriptions (without paywalling anything), direct advertising deals, and content deals with other, bigger publications (they get priority to publish my stuff firs…
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on “Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?”Submitted On Substack Centralization as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAuthor here. One thing I think Substack helps a lot, and that I didn't mention in the article, is on its network effects. I started this blog last year, got it featured on HN home page a few times, but my own newsletter[1] (not hosted at Substack :) growth is non-existent — so far, it got only 25 subscribers. Meanwhile, people can cross-recommend newsletters on Substack, and leverage things like Notes (and replies t…
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on “Substack Is the Biggest Threat to Newsletters Ever”Submitted Twitter no longer serves as a trustful source of information as a story · 8 points
HN discussionGreat app. My review: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/ivory-mastodon-app-review/
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on “Now Available: Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots”Submitted Omnivore adquired by ElevenLabs AI startup as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt does! A couple weeks ago I wrote about Nostr too: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/nostr/
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on “First Impressions of Bluesky's Brand New iOS App”Submitted Mastodon generates more engagement than Twitter. Why? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://notes.ghed.in
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted US$ 30M to Reinvent the Wheel as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt's been a few years that I removed all trackers from my personal blog as well. (Sometimes I add some privacy-focused analytics, sometimes I remove it.) In my English-written blog[1], I just have a self-hosted Plausible tracker. [1] https://notes.ghed.in
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on “Removing all trackers from my website”Submitted What's the deal with SafetyCore, the weird app that appeared on Android? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Substack's Nazi Newsletters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automattic's Tumblr/ActivityPub integration reportedly shelved as a story · 4 points
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