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Rafał Pastuszak
Personal blog · sonnet.io/posts · on HN as rpastuszakprogrammingdesign
Rafał Pastuszak's personal blog at sonnet.io covers programming and design. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 143 times, most often “Sit.”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Rafał Pastuszak's personal site, with posts such as 'Sit', 'hi' (inviting anyone to call), and 'Hummingbirds'. HN readers praise its design and call it a favourite small tech blog worth exploring.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rafał Pastuszak is an experienced startup consultant specialised in web, mobile, emerging technologies and human-centred design. Click to find out more.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/hi4 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2021-11-19
- Sit.3 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2023-02-13
- Code Sober, Debug Drunk3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-06-18
- /2 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-05-12
- Why Hummingbirds Are Evil: Procrastination, Laziness and Play2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-08
What Hacker News says?
That's so wonderful to hear and I wish you all best. I make little games (inspired mostly by burnout): How to Run an All-hands meeting: https://rafsters.itch.io/all-hands Tommy the Toe and the Chamber of Hostile Carpentry: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tommy-the-toe/id1498417487 > And since then, I've been a copywriter, graphic designer, business owner, immigrant, Sounds like your skill-set is very well rounded. Fro…
Comment linking /posts/hi/
on “Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer”Submitted Sit. as a story · 686 points
HN discussionhaha, and I used to be really proud of mine: https://sonnet.io/tommy-the-toe/policy/
Comment linking /tommy-the-toe/policy/
on “Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer”Submitted Why Hummingbirds Are Evil: Procrastination, Laziness and Play as a story · 7 points
HN discussionClose but, no cigar. Code sober, debug drunk! https://sonnet.io/posts/code-sober-debug-drunk/
Comment linking /posts/code-sober-debug-drunk/
on “Writing one sentence per line”Submitted Show HN: I make cursed retrospective templates as a story · 4 points
HN discussionyes, we need more toys! https://sonnet.io/posts/reactive-hole/
Comment linking /posts/reactive-hole/
on “Why I prefer making useless stuff”Submitted Show HN: Come and Say Hi as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJust a (very unserious) reminder that you can host +7kb of data in a single tweet using data URIs + gzip. Here's Pong (HTML + JS) and the Epic of Gilgamesh: https://x.com/rafalpast/status/1316836397903474688 (brought to you by the ad tracking pixel parameters ignoring the tweet length limit) More links + the "Twitter CDN" editor™: https://sonnet.io/projects#:~:text=Laconic!%20(a%20Twitter%2...
Comment linking /projects
on “This website is hosted on Bluesky”Submitted I commit every 2 minutes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI tend to obsess with detail[*] and used to be quite self-conscious about my work. I am yet to find a small project I regretted sharing with people. You spend weeks working on something that never leaves a GitHub repo. Then, 3 years later, you see someone else, implementing a similar idea and sharing it. "this could've been me, if I wasn't such a coward", "my project was better because of x and y", or: "I'll never g…
Comment linking /posts/reactive-hole/
on “Do things, tell people (2012)”Submitted Code Sober, Debug Drunk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's a blog post by the author explaining the context at https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/ . But really, just sit :-)
Comment linking /posts/sit/
on “Sit.”Submitted Code Sober, Debug Drunk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSure, just come and say hi! https://sonnet.io/post/hi I also publish my bullshit meeting notes on https://potato.horse
Comment linking /post/hi
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Emotive Conjugation: I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHeh, seeing PairDrop motivated me to make sth similar, but more as a toy/exercise in messing with idiosyncratic/home cooked software: https://sonnet.io/posts/reactive-hole/
Comment linking /posts/reactive-hole/
on “Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser”Submitted Code Sober, Debug Drunk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRegarding the point on writing—I've been struggling with depression for some time so I built a writing tool which helps me to refocus every day. It has helped me immensely in the past few months, so maybe some of you will find it useful: https://ulysses.sonnet.io You can install the app as a PWA and it works offline ootb, there is NO tracking/analytics, etc... I don't even know how many people are using it. More con…
Comment linking /posts/ulysses/
on “Surviving Depression”Submitted On Making Toys as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've enjoyed using Sit, which is similar in spirit: https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/
Comment linking /posts/sit/
on “Nothing: Simply Do Nothing”Submitted Reactive Hole: On Making Toys as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The important notion here is that TDD is not about tests and correctness, but about development. Yup, writing tests helps me sleep at night. TDD helps me manage my mental resources and iterate. (another reason is communication--we code for our colleagues first, then for the machine: https://sonnet.io/posts/code-sober-debug-drunk/ ) IIRC smalltalk had a workflow where you'd debug and write your program at the same…
Comment linking /posts/code-sober-debug-drunk/
on “TDD from the Factorio Team”Submitted First Faces, First Letters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've been doing it for a few years (+200 calls) and have met a ton of wonderful people this way. https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/say-hi/ https://sonnet.io/posts/hi
Comment linking /posts/hi
on “Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M”Submitted I wasted people's time and they thanked me for it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://ulysses.sonnet.io -- It's a "text input" tool I built to develop a daily writing habit and reduce stress. It makes editing text really hard so you can focus on writing first: https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses/ So far I'm doing 800-1000 words per day on average so I'm pretty happy with it! My fluency has improved drastically. TODO: - I need to change the name because Ulysses is a well known writing app. (I thin…
Comment linking /posts/ulysses/
on “Ask HN: Show me your half baked project”Submitted UseRainbow() – a quick intro to CSS colour theory, a11ty and vampires as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>In my experience over the last decade there are fewer and fewer ways to find a community and any success as a creator of any kind without getting corralled into social media and furthermore getting corralled into being a daily active user / consumer as to not get shadow banned by any given app. Haha, my first thought after reading this comment was that I could've written it myself. I miss internet forums. Also, I'm…
Comment linking /posts/hi/
on “The benefits of staying off social media”Submitted Pair Programming and Snakes as a story · 1 points
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