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Tom Moody
Personal blog · tommoody.usculturedesign
Tom Moody writes tom moody, a personal blog at tommoody.us about culture and design. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. 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 Tom Moody's blog for a critique of brutalist web design, a short story about a bottomless hole, and a category of posts on computers. Comments praise these as nice or worth reading.
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.
What Hacker News says?
https://tommoody.us particularly nice category: https://www.tommoody.us/archives/category/computers-r-stupid...
Comment linking /archives/category/computers-r-stupid/
on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted He-y, come on ou-t (a scifi short story by Shinichi Hoshi, 1989) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhere's a nice critique of this 'brutalist web design' nonsense https://www.tommoody.us/archives/2018/05/29/et-tu-brutalist/
Comment linking /archives/2018/05/29/et-tu-brutalist/
on “Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design”> And don't give me homilies about [...] "All creation is precious." [...] None of these things are true. the statement "all creation is precious" is true from the perspective of someone else that also likes to "create" things by rearranging/juxtaposing/building off of content that already exists. the more "content" that is out there, no matter how trivial it may seem, increases the amount of source material that ca…
Comment linking /archives/2012/03/28/guthrie-lonergan-recent-music-videos-2012/
on “There are too many video games”This reminds me of the short story about a bottomless hole, which is definitely worth 3 minutes of your time to read: https://www.tommoody.us/archives/2015/03/17/he-y-come-on-ou-...
Comment linking /archives/2015/03/17/he-y-come-on-ou-t-a-short-story-by-shinichi-hoshi-translated-by-stanleigh-jones/
on “Deep Borehole Disposal”