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Three Letter Acronym
Personal blog · tla.systems/blogcultureproductivity
Three Letter Acronym is a personal blog at tla.systems about culture and productivity. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “I live my life a quarter century at a time”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-01, 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 by the author of PCalc about his time at Apple and the history of early Mac software, including the origins of the macOS Dock. The comments only link and describe the posts.
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?
- I live my life a quarter century at a time6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-01-04
What Hacker News says?
Links to https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter... Which was discussed a few days ago: 300 points by CharlesW 4 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 178 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42616699
Comment linking /blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/
on “James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock”Submitted I live my life a quarter century at a time as a story · 309 points
HN discussionThis article was just submitted to HN yesterday written by the author of Pcalc where he talks about his time at Apple. https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42616699 Pcalc is still going strong. It along with BBEdit are both OG indy Mac applications that have been around for over 30 years and half evolved with the platform
Comment linking /blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/
on “PCalc, an Origin Story (2012)”Submitted A Long Time Ago, in a Glasgow Far, Far, Away as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Subscribe to Burnout+ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Port of PCalc to Mac using catalytic converter as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
