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Travis Fischer

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Travis Fischer writes Transitive Bullshit, a personal blog at transitivebullsh.it about ai, career and startups. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “JavaScript Dev Tools in 2022”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2022

Personal site of Travis Fischer aka Transitive Bullshit

Most-linked posts?

  1. JavaScript Dev Tools in 2022
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-04-04
  2. Gaming CS Interviews
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-31
  3. Finding Your Passion as a Developer
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://transitivebullsh.it It's powered by Notion as a CMS, react-notion-x, Next.js, and Vercel. I published an open source starter kit so anyone can easily create similar sites: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/nextjs-notion-starter...

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”
  2. Submitted What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like? as a story · 142 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://transitivebullsh.it/a-guide-to-finding-awesome-co-fo...

    Comment linking /a-guide-to-finding-awesome-co-founders

    on “Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder”
  4. Submitted Gaming CS Interviews as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  5. This is how I've solved this problem for myself: by using monthly playlists as a forcing function to motivate myself to find new music every month, where the whole ends up being greater than the sum of it's parts: https://transitivebullsh.it/my-10-year-music-diary

    Comment linking /my-10-year-music-diary

    on “When do we stop finding new music?”
  6. Submitted Lessons from 100k interactions with the ChatGPT Twitter bot as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Here's a similar resource for anyone interested in this topic: https://transitivebullsh.it/gaming-cs-interviews

    Comment linking /gaming-cs-interviews

    on “An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)”
  8. Submitted JavaScript Dev Tools in 2022 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. For anyone wanting a non-empty version, check out my article on how Twitter's algorithmic feed works from last week https://transitivebullsh.it/oss-twitter-algorithm-part-1

    Comment linking /oss-twitter-algorithm-part-1

    on “twitter/the-algorithm”
  10. Submitted JavaScript dev tools that are worth using in 2022 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Really interesting article. I was doing some high-level research on a related question the other day: https://transitivebullsh.it/webassembly-research-9e231b80e6d... I know you've responded to a few people on here that Assemblyscript doesn't address the main issues you're talking about in the article, but honestly it does have a lot of things going for it. I'd love to see a more direct breakdown of this space that e…

    Comment linking /webassembly-research-9e231b80e6d54306adceff38ff22954c

    on “TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++”
  12. Submitted Why I'm so Hyped about the Passion Economy as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Love the initiative; I'm sure you'll run into some of the same lessons that I've learned building Saasify: https://transitivebullsh.it/saasify-vc-feedback Happy to chat further about this space if you're interested && keep up the great work building for devs

    Comment linking /saasify-vc-feedback

    on “Micro APIs for Everyday Use”
  14. Submitted Real feedback from top VCs on a real startup as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. I'm the founder of Saasify, a similar platform from a few years back. Love what you guys are doing, though I think you may run into some of the same issues that we ran into. Here's our post-mortem that you'll hopefully find helpful https://transitivebullsh.it/saasify-vc-feedback

    Comment linking /saasify-vc-feedback

    on “Launch HN: Kable (YC W22) – All-in-one platform for API products”
  16. Submitted The McGurk effect: what you see changes what you hear as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. reminds me of the infamous Conway sort ( https://transitivebullsh.it/gaming-cs-interviews#083392b655d... )

    Comment linking /gaming-cs-interviews

    on “What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like?”
  18. Submitted AI Cyberswarm Warfare Predictions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Hey haha I literally added this yesterday :) https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/nextjs-notion-starter... https://transitivebullsh.it/feed.xml Great call!

    Comment linking /feed.xml

    on “What would open sourcing the Twitter algorithm actually look like?”
  20. Submitted An Army of AI Agents as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. This is why I go by the name https://transitivebullsh.it

    Comment linking /

    on “Bullshit ability as an honest signal of intelligence”
  22. Submitted Finding your passion as a developer (2022) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted JavaScript Dev Tools in 2022 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted JavaScript Dev Tools in 2022 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Finding Your Passion as a Developer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Creator Economy 101 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted The McGurk effect: what you see changes what you hear as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted JavaScript Dev Tools in 2022 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted How to Approach Technical Interviews as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted The basis vectors of the passion economy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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