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Yammering

Personal blog · xana.scru.orgculturewriting

Yammering is a personal blog at xana.scru.org about culture and writing. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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3HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Linked by one commenter in a Mosh thread for a personal anecdote about a coworker's email bouncing and the sender dying in 1998. The blog is a personal writing site.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. And sometimes, the email bounces, and the sender dies. (Juan was a coworker of mine - this happened in 1998.) https://xana.scru.org/posts/etiamdisco/nototolaryngology.htm...

    Comment linking /posts/etiamdisco/nototolaryngology.html

    on “Mosh in a Lift (2012)”
  2. Submitted Open Source Greed as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Any way the wind blows as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted An email bounces, a boy dies. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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