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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything is a personal blog at steamthing.com about writing, culture and economics. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in the Against Camel Case thread as an online bibliographical supplement. The linked post, judging by its URL, is about the kneecapping of intercaps, meaning camel-case naming.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A writer in Brooklyn
What Hacker News says?
An online bibliographical supplement: http://www.steamthing.com/2009/11/the-kneecapping-of-interca...
Comment linking /2009/11/the-kneecapping-of-intercapping.html
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