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Trevor Morris

Personal blog · trovster.com/blogwebprogramming

Trevor Morris's personal blog at trovster.com covers web and programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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2009–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

A Show HN commenter links the author's browser-based Windows XP desktop recreation and says it gives a real hit of nostalgia. The comment is about the page, not written prose.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I am a movie-loving, bike-riding, full-stack web developer from the UK. Here you can read blog posts about web development, view my best photos find interesting links and more…

What Hacker News says?

  1. jpswade · 2019-02-24Recommends
    A friend of mine did this back in the day if you want a real hit of nostalgia... http://trovster.com/desktop/

    Comment linking /desktop/

    on “Show HN: Windows XP in your Browser”
  2. Submitted Cheat Code: a jQuery Plugin as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Modelling user settings as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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