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Zachary Szewczyk
Personal blog · zacs.site/blogprogrammingweb
Zachary Szewczyk writes Zac Szewczyk's Blog, a personal blog at zacs.site about programming and web. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal site of Zachary Szewczyk, linked in a Show HN thread about a static blog engine, apparently as an example of the tool's output. The comment is a bare link and says nothing about the writing.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-09
What Hacker News says?
It comes down to how much time and effort you want to invest into learning a new system, which should depend on how many of the advanced features those systems enable that you will use. For me, that answer was as little as possible and zero. I just need a good static site generator. There are a bunch to choose from these days, but fewer back when I was faced with this decision in the early 2000s, so I wrote my own.…
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on “Run Your Own Website”Submitted Run Your Own Website as a story · 261 points
HN discussionI work ~12 hours a day, but in my free time, I like to work on a lightweight, full-featured blog engine. It’s fast, easy to use, platform-agnostic, and I’m pretty proud of it. I ported it to Python 3 last month, and I have some big plans soon. https://zacs.site/blog/first-crack-release-notes-0619.html
Comment linking /blog/first-crack-release-notes-0619.html
on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Show HN: I built a syllable dictionary using Python and web scraping as a story · 31 points
HN discussionLooks to be https://zacs.site
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on “Show HN: First Crack, a simple static blog engine in Python”Submitted In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttps://zacs.site/ I write about cybersecurity, leadership, weightlifting, and writing, with a few other topics thrown in here and there.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Linear Exeuction, Multiprocessing, and Multithreading IO-Bound Tasks in Python as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Need AI, You Need an Algorithm as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted SoC Metrics, Part I: Foundational Metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Swig, a monolithic, multithreaded, micro web framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Run Your Own (Static) Website (For Free) as a story · 2 points
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