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The Lego Mirror
Personal blog · blog.legoktm.comprogrammingculture
The Lego Mirror is a personal blog at blog.legoktm.com about programming and culture. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Wikimedia Foundation finances, staff layoffs, severance payments and organisational structure. The comments cite it as a source on those topics.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /2023/04/05/wikimedia-foundation-layoffs.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-22
What Hacker News says?
Not so shitty towards the CEO and COO. I wonder how much severance the rank and file people who were fired got? Like, the ones mentioned here: https://blog.legoktm.com/2023/04/05/wikimedia-foundation-lay...
Comment linking /2023/04/05/wikimedia-foundation-layoffs.html
on “Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation”Submitted Wikis World, a Mastodon server for wiki enthusiasts as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe salaries are much larger than what gets put in the "hosting" line, which merely covers things like leasing cage space in datacenters and paying for transit/transport/peering links. I'm not gonna do another deep dive on the org structure, because I've done it before when these topics come up ( like this one half a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33640817 ), but I'll provide my overall view as a 10…
Comment linking /2023/04/05/wikimedia-foundation-layoffs.html
on “Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation”Submitted Wikipedia's new skin is a sad opportunity to reminisce what we could've had as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why am I still here? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do-the-work instead of proof-of-work, for Git hosting as a story · 1 points
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