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Writing Slowly
Personal blog · writingslowly.comwritingculture
Writing Slowly is a personal blog at writingslowly.com about writing and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its writing on hyperlinks in text, such as the 'Hyperlink Maximalism' post, which covers how links give readers context and the pop-up context cards it uses.
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My name’s Richard. I live in Sydney, on the traditional land of Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. Here I write about writing and reading (and what I do when I'm not writing or reading). I'm writing slowly but may at some point speed up. Connect with me on micro.blog or at Mastodon @aus.social@w
What Hacker News says?
I'm increasingly inclined to see classical footnotes or endnotes as a preferable compromise. Simply hyperlinking text often provides little context as to where that link is going , though alternatives (as with your own pop-up context cards, see also Mediawiki's use of same) are useful. I've played with sidenotes as an option, implemented in CSS (I've a few CodePens on this concept). That also works reasonably well (…
Comment linking /2023/07/24/walter-benjamin-on.html
on “Hyperlink Maximalism (2022)”Submitted What I've learned from non-linear narratives as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2M Notes and No Dictionary: Learning from Semyon Vengerov's Cautionary Tale as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walter Benjamin on the Obsolete Book as a story · 1 points
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