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Shane O'Sullivan

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Shane O'Sullivan writes SOS, a personal blog at shaneosullivan.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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2008–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2025

Shane O'Sullivan's technical blog... really ties the room together

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  1. shaneos · 2025-07-28

    Submitted Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children as a story · 203 points

    HN discussion
  2. msh · 2021-02-10

    Submitted Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch as a story · 193 points

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  3. shaneos · 2025-08-11

    Submitted Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image as a story · 87 points

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  4. shaneos · 2023-05-17

    Submitted Using Bun.js as a Bundler as a story · 17 points

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  5. shaneos · 2024-04-10

    Submitted Using DallE to create kids coloring pages, faster and cheaper as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. shaneos · 2025-03-25

    Submitted Optimizing Google Cloud and Vercel spend on iwittr.com as a story · 2 points

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  7. shaneos · 2023-06-13

    Submitted Lightweight NextJS API for Uploading Files to Google Cloud Storage as a story · 2 points

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  8. shaneos · 2023-05-23

    Submitted Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas as a story · 2 points

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  9. shaneos · 2026-09-03

    Submitted DiskSpace: Building an app 3 (ok 4) times in a day with Claude as a story · 1 points

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  10. shaneos · 2026-01-06

    Submitted Convert GIFs to MP4 purely on client side as a story · 1 points

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  11. shaneos · 2025-11-06

    Submitted GIF to MP4 encoding in the browser and everywhere all at once as a story · 1 points

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  12. shaneos · 2025-06-16

    Submitted Search Huge JSON files on the web without crashing as a story · 1 points

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  13. shaneos · 2024-05-29

    Submitted Instant dynamic gradient fills with OffscreenCanvas and Web Workers as a story · 1 points

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  14. shaneos · 2023-11-10

    Submitted Cleaning up after your NextJS dev server as a story · 1 points

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  15. shaneos · 2022-03-10

    Submitted Countdoku – Building a fast NextJS game with almost no JavaScript as a story · 1 points

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  16. Bluestein · 2021-02-10

    Submitted Ubuntu – good enough for grannies and girlfriends as a story · 1 points

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  17. shaneos · 2016-05-30

    Submitted Dark Legacy Comics and React Native as a story · 1 points

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  18. gtani · 2008-08-26

    Submitted Dojo’s Django Templating Language’s HtmlTemplate class. as a story · 1 points

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