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Steren's essays
Personal blog · blog.steren.frprogrammingwriting
Steren's essays is a personal blog at blog.steren.fr about programming and writing. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “My stack is HTML+CSS”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steren's essays for the post "My stack will outlive yours", which describes a plain HTML+CSS blog stack, and for its JSON-LD markup. Commenters also note how rarely the author posts.
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.
So many drafts, so few posts
Most-linked posts?
- My stack is HTML+CSS4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-12-23
What Hacker News says?
I wrote about static HTML sites in "My stacks will outlive yours": https://blog.steren.fr/2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/
Comment linking /2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/
on “The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019)”Submitted My stack is HTML+CSS as a story · 225 points
HN discussionOne thing I'd like to learn/better understand is this part: <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": " http://schema.org ", "@type": "Article", "author": "Steren Giannini", "name": "My stack will outlive yours", "image": " https://blog.steren.fr/2020/my-stack-will-outlive-yours/ligh... " } </script> is this something created programmatically? I'd like to create a blog but I don't want to have to type all al…
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on “My stack is HTML+CSS”Submitted My stack will outlive yours as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI agree it could have been phrased more nicely, but it actually pointed out something valid, which I didn't catch at first. The author hasn't written any posts in 5 years, and has ~15 total since 2010: https://blog.steren.fr/ As someone who blogs regularly, I'm more interested in the toolchain of people who HAVE done significant writing. I read blogs for at least a decade before I wrote one, and it's harder than it…
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on “My stack is HTML+CSS”Submitted “My stack will outlive yours”: Going back to raw HTML+CSS for websites and blogs as a story · 17 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.steren.fr https://labs.steren.fr
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted We power our home with our own solar energy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Google “Search by image” to track your pictures as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Narrative Clip (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My stack will outlive yours as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feedback from two hackathons I organized as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Photographic memory: feedback after wearing the Narrative lifelogging camera as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I am using technology to find my way in a foreign language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cocktail dosage in martini (cone) glasses: Maths are here to help as a story · 1 points
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