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this is aaronland
Personal blog · aaronland.info/weblogcultureprogramming
this is aaronland is a personal blog at aaronland.info about culture and programming. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments don't discuss the blog's writing. They link to posts on Flickr, historical NYC map vectorizing, and structured tags, and the linked posts appear to cover those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Having been around conversations with some of the old Flickr people, I have to disagree. It's definitely sinking, and has been slowly gutted over the past few years. This is only the most recent piece of news: http://nolancaudill.com/2012/01/30/the-front-line/ All of the core Flickr people have left, and some (like Aaron Straup Cope) are starting to build their own: http://straup.github.com/parallel-flickr/ http://w…
Comment linking /weblog/2011/10/14/pixelspace/
on “Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users”Submitted Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI'm part of the team at NYPL Labs that's been working on these historical geospatial projects for the past few years (The Vectorizer is the work of our own @MGA), and that's EXACTLY what we've been working toward. For almost 4 years, we've had staff and volunteers going over scans of geo-rectified (stitching and stretching a raster image so it aligns with geospatial coordinates) historical insurance maps of NYC meti…
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on “Map Vectorizer – Map polygon and feature extractor”Submitted What are the chances the cashless student cafeteria has a privacy policy? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA post from 2006? Anyway, a long time ago Delicious quietly implemented experimental support of structured tags delimited by colons. You can tag things "foo:bar" and "foo:baz" and then see all of those bookmarks by looking at "system:has:foo". An example: http://www.delicious.com/britta/system:has:via Flickr uses colons too and calls these structured tags "machine tags": http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/7215…
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on “Simple Hierarchical Tagging”Submitted Let's move all the museums out to the airport (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parallel-o-gram: Local Live Instagram Backup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Towers of History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Hate Everything, The Musical as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Papernet as a story · 1 points
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