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the webb blog
Personal blog · blog.webb.page · on HN as NetOpWibbywebculture
the webb blog is a personal blog at blog.webb.page about web and culture. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Beginning of the Ende”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on personal data storage, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), and alternatives to DNS such as Handshake. Comments cite them as background, and one points to a different post by mistake.
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.
Remember re/thinking Twitter handles for your various projects? It’s 2026, I’m not doing all that for a shit platform. I will spend hours wrangling social I control though.
Most-linked posts?
- Beginning of the Ende3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-11
- The Human Advantage2 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-02-09
- The Internet is not broken2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-15
- /WM-0252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of the interview gauntlet Hashicorp had me do a few years ago. I’m glad experiences like these are getting exposed, success is no excuse for rudeness. [0]: https://blog.webb.page/2018-01-11-why-the-job-search-sucks.t...
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on “Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe”Submitted A Personal API as a story · 156 points
HN discussionI've been saying this for YEARS. In fact, I just published a blog post saying this very same thing SMH. https://blog.webb.page/2025-03-27-spitball-with-claude.txt
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on “Apple needs a Snow Sequoia”Submitted Why the Job Search Sucks (2018) as a story · 80 points
HN discussionI'll keep bringing up this example whenever people dismiss LLMs. I can ask Claude the most inane programming question and got an answer. If I were to do that on StackOverflow, I'd get downvoted, rude comments, and my question closed for being off-topic. I don't have to be super knowledgeable about the thing I'm asking about with Claude (or any LLM for that matter). Even if you ignore the rudeness and elitism of powe…
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on “I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs”Submitted The Future of the Operating System: Revisited, Part 1 as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI really wanted to work at HashiCorp in 2017/2018 and did five interviews in one day only to get ghosted[1]. That experience soured me on HC and its tools but I still admired them from afar. End of an era. --- [1]: https://blog.webb.page/2018-01-11-why-the-job-search-sucks.t...
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on “IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp”Submitted How to setup a Handshake site with Caddy as a story · 46 points
HN discussionIt doesn’t really rely absolutely on domain names; at the very root there’s just a DID. DNS happens to be the best we’ve got right now as a human-readable username and address in-one goes. We can work to make DNS /ICANN et.al. more democratically operated and people-owned while at the same time devising wholly alternate paradigms like Handshake and similar: https://blog.webb.page/2025-08-21-dap-the-handshake-success…
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on “Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come”Submitted Customizing my Compaq MX-11800 keyboard as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI'm working on a video platform called Nickel. 5-second clips and 5-minute (max) videos. I've been slacking on development but realized recently that I lack focus and am easily distracted by other projects. I wrote about this yesterday. https://blog.webb.page/2025-09-28-ikigai.txt I did figure out something I've long wondered about recently. Y'know how you can see previews of videos in Messages? I got it working! He…
Comment linking /2025-09-28-ikigai.txt
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)”Submitted In favor of small modules and plumbing as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI feel your pain. I’d make a simple static blog generator but then grow tired of some shortcomings, which then led to abandonment. My current blog has an HTML rendered homepage but all the posts are text files. https://blog.webb.page
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on “Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time”Submitted The Internet is not broken as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis was a beautiful read. Can I read your blog? Mine is https://blog.webb.page .
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on “Resurrect the Old Web”Submitted Beginning of the Ende as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThat ASCII art is cool af, wow. My blog[0] is also in plain text, I love it. As a designer, I’m my own worst client but redesigning my own sites multiple times a year was draining…if I design something to be super basic, I can’t get mad at it. About a year in so far, it’s working. —- [0]: https://blog.webb.page
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on “Raw Text Club”Submitted The Human Advantage as a story · 3 points
HN discussion^ These are some of the reasons why I start in this industry. I’m a minority who is self-taught and hates wearing suits/business-wear every day (also, it’s so damn cool go from having an idea to having it built and seeing it in the wild in the span of a few weeks to months). One of my most popular HN posts [1] is about how the job search sucks so I empathize a lot. However, I have little interest in working for “top…
Comment linking /2018/why-the-job-search-sucks
on “Hiring Is Broken?”Submitted Neutral as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Cupertino, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Deno, EdgeDB, GraphQL, Bun, SvelteKit Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulanthonywebb/ Email: paul+hn@webb.page I'm a designer/developer with 15+ years of experience. I'm self-taught and personal projects keep me sharp (and, the reason why I'm kinda full-stack). I'm looking for meaningful, interesting work. I like to experiment with des…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)”Submitted The Internet is not broken as a story · 3 points
HN discussionConduit is great, I migrated my private friends server to it a few months ago. Made a lil' tutorial as well: https://blog.webb.page/2025-04-25-enter-the-matrix.txt Now if I could get Element X working that'd be awesome but I've settled for regular Element for now.
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on “Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations”Submitted The Bullshit of Facebook as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReminds me of the 6 interview gauntlet I dealt with when interviewing with Hashicorp[1] years ago. --- [1]: < https://blog.webb.page/WM-025 >
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on “Oxide raises $200M Series C”Submitted Beginning of the Ende (A Deno Fork) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you append ".txt" to any memo (post) or remark URL on my blog[1], you'll see a text-only version, formatted like an RFC. This redesign is only a few weeks old. Previously, only the homepage of my blog was HTML/CSS, the posts were all text files by default. Most (all?) people were frustrated with the mobile experience but I loved it. I only redesigned because I wanted to see images on my blog again. You can see th…
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on “A small collection of text-only websites”Submitted Arguments for Apple enthusiasts whenever an Android user as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think you linked to the wrong URL, from the title you meant this: https://blog.webb.page/WM-025
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on “Why the Job Search Sucks (2018)”Submitted Why the Job Search Sucks (2018) as a story · 2 points
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