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Terry Godier
Personal blog · terrygodier.comwebcultureproductivity
Terry Godier's personal blog at terrygodier.com covers web, culture and productivity. Since 2021, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “The Last Quiet Thing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Terry Godier's essays, such as The Last Quiet Thing and The Boring Internet, for their visual essay style and their plain-text (ASCII) versions. Commenters also cite pieces on watches and Casio.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Building software that respects your attention.
Most-linked posts?
- The Last Quiet Thing12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2026-03-16
- Current: RSS Reader4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-17
- Why do RSS readers look like email clients?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
- /the-last-quiet-thing/ascii3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-06
- /the-boring-internet/ascii2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-06
- The Boring Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-05
- Body Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-07
What Hacker News says?
Phantom Obligation, the post that Gruber says brought Godier to his attention, seems pretty AI-generated: https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
Comment linking /phantom-obligation
on “Mea Culpa – Dark Hours”Submitted Show HN: Marketing Patterns – DIY Template for Growth as a story · 13 points
HN discussionHere’s a very short list of visual essays I like: https://thenoisyroom.com/ https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing This one is good but the content doesn’t speak to me like the above. Would have been nice if OP had added a writing style suggestion to the prompt. Vanilla LLM text is sad
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on “Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely”Submitted Why do RSS readers look like email clients? as a story · 4 points
HN discussioneven the plain text version’s subheading gets under my skin for some reason https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii > You chose the quiet version. No animations. No scroll effects. Just words.
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on “The Boring Internet”Submitted Body Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlternative readable rendering: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii
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on “The Boring Internet”Submitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAuthor here. I did not use AI to write this essay. I write in apple notes and then move to an old app I use called Hemingway that I've used for years. I've gotten this a lot on the 3 essays I have up, so I avoided Hemingway entirely on the latest one I posted today https://www.terrygodier.com/body-language - I left it significantly more wordy and less edited. I hope someday these sort of comments will ease up a litt…
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on “The Last Quiet Thing”Submitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRight at the top is a conspicuous option to read as plain text, which takes you to https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii
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on “The Last Quiet Thing”Submitted Goodbye WordPress, Hello Hugo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSorry, I try to keep both camps in mind as I build these things. There's a text version linked at the top, but the link is here: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii
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on “The Last Quiet Thing”Submitted The Boring Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLink at top... https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing/ascii
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on “The Last Quiet Thing”Submitted The Boring Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee perhaps the essay ‘The Last Quiet Thinkg’ by Terry Godier on his Casio (and tech generally): * https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
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on “I love my dumb watches”Submitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTry this: https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation/ascii
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on “Why do RSS readers look like email clients?”Submitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Current: RSS Reader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Current – New RSS Reader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Quiet Thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Current – An RSS Reader as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Current – An RSS reader with no unread counts as a story · 1 points
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