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Rukshan's Blog
Personal blog · ruky.me · on HN as rukshnstartupsculture
Rukshan's Blog is a personal blog at ruky.me about startups and culture. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rukshan's Blog for a post on why its author wouldn't use Signal, which was cited when discussing the author's stance on Signal's data collection. Only one comment links a post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hello this is Rukshan's blog
Most-linked posts?
- I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-11
- Signal, thank you for not collecting my data. But I won’t use you3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
What Hacker News says?
Well I started feeling burned out even before the pandemic I decided that if I continue in this path it's not going to be healthy for my body and my life So I decided to change the way I live and I don't see any drop in productivity before and after. The only thing is I'm happy with the current state of my life The bliss is in life is not getting too attached to things (work, deadlines, startup stress) but letting t…
Comment linking /2021/01/19/too-much-hustling-can-kill-you/
on “Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?”Submitted Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe as a story · 393 points
HN discussionAlmost all posts related to my blog https://ruky.me where I make a small amount by serving ads. It’s not a life changing amount, but the feedback I get from HN motivates me to write.
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on “Ask HN: What HN post made you money?”Submitted Reddit can't build a better search engine as a story · 292 points
HN discussionI recently wrote about a disaster that happened to an online ticketing service which decided to use a blockchain as a database There are lessons to be learnt who try to put everyth to a blockchain https://ruky.me/2020/12/23/somethings-are-never-meant-to-be-...
Comment linking /2020/12/23/somethings-are-never-meant-to-be-invented-the-story-of-blockevent/
on “IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources”Submitted I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium as a story · 236 points
HN discussionYou just summarized what I wrote two days ago https://ruky.me/2021/02/03/would-you-pay-me-if-i-built-a-web...
Comment linking /2021/02/03/would-you-pay-me-if-i-built-a-web-browser/
on “The endless browser wars”Submitted Work on interesting problems. Not interesting tech as a story · 187 points
HN discussionSame thing happened to me but with an .icu domain, it’s always better to buy an expensive domain extension than a cheap one https://ruky.me/2020/12/15/dont-buy-a-icu-domain/
Comment linking /2020/12/15/dont-buy-a-icu-domain/
on “Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021”Submitted Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage as a story · 157 points
HN discussionPlugging here what I wrote recently, my experience of clubhouse within my first week. Personally clubhouse is good at the moment, no brands, no trolls but not sure how long it will last this way https://ruky.me/2021/03/30/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-sid...
Comment linking /2021/03/30/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-side-of-clubhouse/
on “Clubhouse clones are coming”Submitted Cryptocurrencies Have Broken Almost All of Their Major Promises as a story · 132 points
HN discussionI switched to fish shell with star ship. Fish has autocomplete and syntax highlighting out of the box which is quite neat and the main features I use in omgzh so fish was a safe choice for me https://ruky.me/moving-from-zsh-to-fish-nixos-darwin/
Comment linking /moving-from-zsh-to-fish-nixos-darwin/
on “You probably don't need Oh My Zsh”Submitted This Community is Available in the App as a story · 111 points
HN discussionhttps://ruky.me
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Ideas that have been beaten to death as a story · 63 points
HN discussionJetbrains has plenty of extensions (1st party, high quality plugins that are far better than some of the 1st party Microsoft plugins) and no one cares if it's by Microsoft (what does "commondize code editors" even mean? Do you really think any vscode users care?). Honestly, I doubt most people even care it's kind-of open source (1). > 1. Free This is the reason most people use vscode. That's it. It's free, and it's…
Comment linking /2022/06/11/im-switching-form-vs-code-to-vs-codium/
on “RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains”Submitted Show HN: A TO-DO app that fits inside a single tweet as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI’ve had many blogs but recently started hosting under my own domain. https://ruky.me where I mainly talk about digital health, startups, programming and open source
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Is it time to open source SublimeText? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThe same author did a recent post on why they wouldn't use Signal. https://ruky.me/2021/01/08/signal-thank-you-for-not-collecti...
Comment linking /2021/01/08/signal-thank-you-for-not-collecting-my-data-but-i-wont-use-you/
on “I sent this email asking my friends to switch to Signal”Submitted BitClout is a scam, change my mind as a story · 28 points
HN discussionIt napped to me recently I guess it’s just a part of the game We just have to learn from it and move on to what we do next Full story https://ruky.me/2021/01/26/do-you-believe-in-fail-fast-and-f...
Comment linking /2021/01/26/do-you-believe-in-fail-fast-and-fail-quickly/
on “Ask HN: How do you manage up?”Submitted Starting a blog has never been this difficult as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rings of Share – the unsolved problem of sharing as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted I used to love Bootstrap. God, now I just hate it as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Google needs to build an open chat client like Elemen as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Who Don’t Use RSS Don’t Know What They Are Missing Out as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Switching Form VS Code to vs Codium as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The impossible task of blocking disposable email signups as a story · 5 points
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