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Thomas Hunter II
Personal blog · thomashunter.name · on HN as renownedmediaprogrammingwebai
Thomas Hunter II's personal blog at thomashunter.name covers programming, web and ai. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “PHP + Apache Stack vs Node.js”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on ad targeting and banner ads versus affiliate links and content marketing, and for a guide to enabling emoji fonts on Debian. None of the comments judge the writing.
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.
The personal website of Thomas Hunter II, Software Engineer.
Most-linked posts?
- PHP + Apache Stack vs Node.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-22
- Generic Banner Ads vs. Affiliate Links2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-09
- Online Colorscheme Configurator for i3, i3status, dmenu2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-22
What Hacker News says?
https://thomashunter.name I'm a prolific blogger, wouldn't be surprised if I have the most posts on here. Mostly Node.js and JavaScript. I host things like side projects, all of my presentations, and my resume on it. When I publish a new book I update the pages to link to it for marketing.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Migrating from Google Analytics as a story · 352 points
HN discussionIn other words, you're better off with affiliate links and content marketing than you are with algorithmic banner ads. Heck, even Google AdSense scans your site to match ads with the content (source: I've tried using AdSense). They just don't rely exclusively on the content for ad targetting. for actual comparisons: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2019-01-09-generic-banner-ad...
Comment linking /posts/2019-01-09-generic-banner-ads-vs-affiliate-links
on “After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue”Submitted Strategic Game of Life as a story · 158 points
HN discussionI've got a dozen presentations [1] that all use reveal.js. I like it for presenting at live events because I just host them on my public website [2], and if my machine were to die, I could just borrow one from an audience member. - [1]: https://github.com/tlhunter/presentations - [2]: https://thomashunter.name/presentations/
Comment linking /presentations/
on “Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework”Submitted AI will change the world but not in the way you think as a story · 91 points
HN discussionhttps://thomashunter.name/blog/enable-emoji-fonts-on-debian-...
Comment linking /blog/enable-emoji-fonts-on-debian-ubuntu-mint-linux/
on “How to Run a Rogue Gov Twitter Account with Anon Email Address and Burner Phone”Submitted I Finally Deleted my LinkedIn Account as a story · 71 points
HN discussionFor a few months I had the ability for users to sign up for a paid account, but I never pushed it. After that, I just disabled the feature altogether. The most advertising I did do was a 125x125 ad on a website used by web developers (DavidWalsh.name) for one month. I didn't get a single user through that ad though. The biggest lesson learned is that an app like this really needs someone who is good at marketing. I'…
Comment linking /blog/shutting-down-and-open-sourcing-neoinvoice/
on “Just open sourced my 10k LOC PHP & MySQL invoicing app”Submitted Drop Root Privileges in Node.js after Binding to Port 80 as a story · 38 points
HN discussionLocation: San Francisco, CA Remote: Remote or office is OK Willing to relocate: No Technologies: "Fullstack": Node.js, Redis+Lua, PostgreSQL, Vue, PWA, Mobile Web Résumé/CV: https://thomashunter.name/resume.pdf Email: my HN username at gmail For my current company I created a mobile web app, packaged it for the App Store and Play Store, built the server, documented the API, setup metrics and analytics. I've written…
Comment linking /resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)”Submitted Why Android should switch to Go as a story · 35 points
HN discussionGood question! Deno has four policies that I know of: --allow-write --allow-net --allow-env --allow-run Today these policies are all-or-nothing and they are global to the entire Deno process. Consider and application which _only_ needs to make a GET request to a single GitHub API endpoint. This application will then use the `--allow-net` flag and will be able to communicate with arbitrary sites like evil.ru. However…
Comment linking /presentations/introducing-osgood/
on “Show HN: Osgood – A secure, fast, and simple JavaScript server platform”Submitted Post Apocalyptic Computing as a story · 28 points
HN discussionMine is pretty cool looking: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2026-02-26-alpaka-elements-t...
Comment linking /posts/2026-02-26-alpaka-elements-tech-case-camera-bag
on “Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?”Submitted A Primer on Web Caching as a story · 15 points
HN discussionhttps://thomashunter.name/ Hundreds of posts. Mostly JavaScript, game dev, Node.js.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted What WordPress 4.x Could Be as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIf i3 is still in an upstreaming mood I'd love to donate my web based theme/config generator: https://thomashunter.name/i3-configurator/
Comment linking /i3-configurator/
on “The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3”Submitted PHP + Apache Stack vs Node.js as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Upcoming Parallel Digital Universe as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux CLI apps should have a --json flag as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Could JavaScript someday support Parallelism? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spaghetti Architecture and the Importance of Starting Over as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Augmented Reality as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Migrating from Wordpress to Static Markdown as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Idea Generator as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living Light as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing OpenIndiana Image onto a USB drive within OS X as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GUI REPL for interacting with running Node.js apps as a story · 4 points
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