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Tim's website
Personal blog · timdaub.github.ioprogrammingeconomics
Tim's website is a personal blog at timdaub.github.io about programming and economics. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 111 times, most often “Web3 is a stupid idea”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tim Daub's posts on freelance web development, open source, and his critique of web3. The comments praise the open-source and web3 pieces, and one notes a footnote layout problem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tim's space on the internet.
Most-linked posts?
- Web3 is a stupid idea4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-04-06
- On-Chain, the Emperor Wears No Clothes2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-10-21
- NFTs are coming for Instagram and other social media platforms2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-21
- Sleepminting NFTs2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22
- When Scope Blows Up2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-18
- On “Technical Yield” (and Technical Debt)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-06
What Hacker News says?
My blog https://timdaub.github.io I'm working on being a better (& independent) writer.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore as a story · 293 points
HN discussionI've written about credible neutrality of protocols in the context of crypto (where this strategy has been pioneered): https://timdaub.github.io/2022/03/11/ethereum-is-the-newsfee...
Comment linking /2022/03/11/ethereum-is-the-newsfeed-we-deserve/
on “Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022”Submitted WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math as a story · 205 points
HN discussionIf you mean me, I've been lost since 2014 to this stuff: Check my CV on my blog: https://timdaub.github.io
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on “Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts”Submitted Web3 is a stupid idea as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI built a mini game engine in JS that allows someone to build a 2D game, but once it was done I started to become bored. Demo (desktop only): https://timdaub.github.io/videogame/ Code: https://github.com/TimDaub/videogame
Comment linking /videogame/
on “Ask HN: Show me your half baked project”Submitted Terrible things I'd do with your money as a story · 169 points
HN discussionHey, I asked myself too how I should get started with Audio Programming in 2019. I ended up building my own little synth in the progress and I ended up talking to people from Ableton and even gave a talk at Native Instrument's headquarters here in Berlin. I blogged about my experience and my product here: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
Comment linking /2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
on “Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming?”Submitted How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer as a story · 156 points
HN discussionhttps://timdaub.github.io/2022/08/28/six-unpopular-opinions-...
Comment linking /2022/08/28/six-unpopular-opinions-about-software-standard-development/
on “We should have Markdown-rendered websites”Submitted The user experience problems of quadratic voting as a story · 144 points
HN discussionMy project's goal is to increase the safety in the DeFi space (actually just a small subspace for now): We're monitoring token pools for "rug pulls" and giving them a "safety" rating: https://rugpullindex.com I also wrote a blog post about the safety crisis in smart contract development: https://timdaub.github.io/2021/12/08/illuminating-the-dark-f...
Comment linking /2021/12/08/illuminating-the-dark-forest/
on “Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls””Submitted Show HN: I built a virtual concert venue for artists as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI tried to build my own audio stream coming from a web-hosted synth. Read more on it here: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/12/27/wasm-stream/ And come visit our assembly!
Comment linking /2020/12/27/wasm-stream/
on “Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams”Submitted About the Urgency of Building Web3 as a story · 49 points
HN discussionendorse. following the link through is quite jarring. non-footnote version: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
Comment linking /2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
on “WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math”Submitted Is the SEC Forcing Crypto Devs into Illegality and Anonymity? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionno because similar to PGP keys it really doesn't matter where you publish your fingerprint or how you connect your identities. If shaq had a popular website, he could do it there too. E.g. I have my PGP fingerprint on my website: https://timdaub.github.io
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on “That's My Ape - A blockchain-free chain of custody tool”Submitted TypeScript is weakening the JavaScript ecosystem as a story · 28 points
HN discussionHeeey, glad you asked! I'm not full-time on this, but I'm trying to build an OSS DAW. Here is a first tiny demo: https://timdaub.github.io/wasm-synth/ I also wrote about it: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
Comment linking /2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
on “Ableton Live 11”Submitted Show HN: I Built a Synthesizer with WASM as a story · 25 points
HN discussionAwesome take. I've recently come to understand that the same problematic exists in the cryptosphere too. Here, the token holders act recklessly towards the engineers creating the value: https://timdaub.github.io/2021/10/21/on-chain-the-emperor-we...
Comment linking /2021/10/21/on-chain-the-emperor-wears-no-clothes/
on “An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001)”Submitted Six unpopular opinions about software standard development as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI want to focus on this bit. > [I] would like to see is increased risk-taking in the workplace [...] I want to blow up the scope [1], but they won't allow me While I generally agree with the sentiment, let me offer a devil's advocate position to counter the whole "woe is me, I am but a 10x engineer suffocated by the evil VCs and PMs of the world who keep asking for dumb jira updates. If they stopped asking for updat…
Comment linking /2021/06/18/when-scope-blows-up/
on “Terrible things I'd do with your money”Submitted My friend helped vaccinate 16 with a Telegram bot as a story · 18 points
HN discussionHey Alexander, thanks for your genuine post. I can't help but notice the big red disclaimer you put on the beginning. Once I wrote a blog post about a thing I didn't like about Typescript and submitted it to Hacker News [1]. Bad choice. The hate was immense and unnecessary. I even had one guy write a long post about what a "soy dev" I am. That made me feel sad and dislike the HN and dev community. Anyways, I just wa…
Comment linking /2020/09/01/typescript/
on “Benefits of Not Using an IDE”Submitted On-Chain, the Emperor Wears No Clothes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLove the section "I use open source to my advantage": https://timdaub.github.io/2021/01/16/web-principles/#i-use-o... . I started doing this a couple of years ago - defaulting to writing open source code unless I had a really good reason not to - and my productivity has gone through the roof as a direct result. The way I think about this is that ideally as a software developer I should only ever have to solve any pr…
Comment linking /2021/01/16/web-principles/
on “How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer”Submitted web3 is a Stupid Idea as a story · 5 points
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