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Ryan Barrett
Personal blog · snarfed.org · on HN as ryan_bprogrammingweb
Ryan Barrett's personal blog at snarfed.org covers programming and web. Since 2007, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Content negotiation considered harmful (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ryan Barrett's blog for IndieWeb writing, plus posts on privacy with prepaid cards, a software quotes list, and a 2002 MP3 sync post cited as prior art in a patent dispute.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Content negotiation considered harmful (2023)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-24
- Why I run shells inside Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-09
What Hacker News says?
You can read about someone who is a bit obsesses (in a pragmatic way) about that here: http://snarfed.org/privacy_through_prepaid_credit_cards
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on “This page is anonymous”Submitted We're Drowning as a story · 187 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing my site! As you say, I'm quite big with IndieWeb, and for readers there are quite a few other folks you'll want to see - https://snarfed.org/ https://tantek.com/ https://aaronparecki.com/ and https://www.barryfrost.com/ to name just a few. If anyone is interested learning more about the IndieWeb, https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ is a transcript of a conference talk I gave on what…
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on “'Expert Twitter' Only Goes So Far – Bring Back Blogs”Submitted Gmail vs Pine as a story · 79 points
HN discussionHijacking this thread to share other approaches to YouTube without YouTube. This site takes a YouTube URL, extracts the audio and adds a link to your personal podcast feed on huffduffer. It’s great for loading a bunch of interviews, lectures, and other things that don’t require the video into your podcast player. https://snarfed.org/2015-03-07_huffduff-video
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on “Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube”Submitted Under the covers of the App Engine Datastore as a story · 15 points
HN discussionLove it! I keep a similar set of quotes. Lots of fun. https://snarfed.org/software-engineering-quotes
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on “Epigrams in Programming (1982) [pdf]”Submitted The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained as a story · 11 points
HN discussionre the questions about replication across datacenters, see: http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/TransactionsAcross... it discusses both app engine's approach and the underlying factors and tradeoffs that apply to any similar system. for the executive summary, see slide 33 from: http://snarfed.org/space/transactions_across_datacenters_io....
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on “Google App Engine Team's Post-mortem for February 24 Outage”Submitted I’m slow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCore Articles referenced. Skip the blog post http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html http://snarfed.org/why_i_run_shells_inside_emacs http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4911.html
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on “Mental Context Switches Are Evil”Submitted Reverse Turing Tests as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"synchronizing mp3 playback" (p4sync,) DECEMBER 29, 2002 UPDATED DECEMBER 30, 2017 https://snarfed.org/synchronizing_mp3_playback Unfortunately, USPTO only searches it's own database for published prior art. It's up to everyone else to find and show prior published art (and/or explain obviousness) in order to invalidate a patent being used non-defensively.
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on “Sonos Sues Google: It wanted to sue Amazon but could only risk suing one”Submitted I'm slow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe marketing for Azure makes more sense in light of you not having used any of the stuff you were promoting. Nowhere do you mention any of your competitors, much less compare yourself to them. None of the "tracks" [Web Developers, Corporate Developers, ISVs, Systems Integrators, Business] had anything pertinent, and none of it was remotely useful to anyone to whom cloud computing was more than the cover story of th…
Comment linking /space/windows+azure+details
on “Ask HN: Getting Started on MSFT Web Stack vs Other Frameworks/Platforms”Submitted Possible Futures for Bridgy Fed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happy 10th Birthday, Bridgy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted One million webmentions sent as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted VR: A medium is born as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moderate People, Not Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Translating/bridging across multiple protocols and identities (via federation) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transactions Across Datacenters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I’m weird about privacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I run shells inside Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon SimpleDB Thoughts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook data store api thoughts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Content negotiation considered harmful (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bridgy Fed Status Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Content Negotiation Considered Harmful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Content Negotiation Considered Harmful as a story · 1 points
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