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Val Packett

Personal blog · val.packett.coolprogrammingweb

Val Packett's personal blog at val.packett.cool covers programming and web. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2023

Most-linked posts?

  1. Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
  2. Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-06
  3. TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-26
  4. Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. rasengan0 · 2023-07-27
    TiddlyWiki still works as intended: https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted but there are so many different clients to run on. Mobile or Desktop ? What OS? What Browser? This effort https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/ is remarkable as the mobile side of saving is not as robust as on the desktop side of things and there is a scaling limit on performance as the number of tiddlers grows. Also the syncing between tw…

    Comment linking /blog/tiddlypwa/

    on “TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids”
  2. pierremenard · 2025-05-08

    Submitted Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  3. ThatGeoGuy · 2024-01-09

    Submitted Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  4. JNRowe · 2023-01-13

    Submitted Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  5. lisa_k · 2025-05-06

    Submitted Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. r4um · 2024-01-09

    Submitted Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. goranmoomin · 2024-01-10

    Submitted path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. todsacerdoti · 2023-07-26

    Submitted TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. todsacerdoti · 2023-01-10

    Submitted Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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