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The Art Of Not Asking Why

Personal blog · taonaw.com · on HN as jtr121productivityprogramming

The Art Of Not Asking Why is a personal blog at taonaw.com about productivity and programming. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2026

JTR. This is. (also jtr@fosstodon.org) Emacs, org-mode, TiddlyWiki, Linux, DnD, gaming... also coffee, exercise, lifestyle, photography.

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jtr121 · 3 karma · member since 2024

Linus kicked off a de-googling series because Google's tracking is enough material for a couple of 20-minute videos. He covers all the big things, including YouTube. It's no surprise that part 2, which discusses YouTube in depth, was removed from the platform because of "violating YouTube's Community Guidelines." If this is not proof of the quality of the content, I don't know what is. I'm posting it here, hoping that some more techy folks can validate his content and perhaps spread part 2 else…

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What Hacker News says?

  1. surprisetalk · 2026-06-30

    Submitted Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  2. jtr121 · 2024-07-16

    Submitted Indie blogs are doing OK as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  3. speckx · 2026-09-14

    Submitted My Blog Fails Accessibility Tests and That's Okay as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. speckx · 2026-07-13

    Submitted Auth and Curl as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. speckx · 2026-06-08

    Submitted Trying Out Vivaldi on Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. JNRowe · 2025-04-10

    Submitted First Week with Journelly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Tomte · 2024-02-25

    Submitted Less org-mode, more Outlook? Why? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. abnercoimbre · 2025-12-05

    Submitted KDE Backups and Permissions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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