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New comment by aor215 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

aor215 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:37:06 +0000

https://alexrichey.com/

Mortality

aor215 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://alexrichey.com/articles/2025-08-10-on-mortality.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485879

Points: 3

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New comment by aor215 in "Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?"

aor215 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:20:01 +0000

Actually, now you can import from Pocket. I used Codex and Claude Code to put this feature together in an hour or so :)

New comment by aor215 in "Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?"

aor215 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:39:35 +0000

I have a little side project I started a couple years ago for this: https://linksort.com/

I work on it when I can. I'd like to add an import from Pocket feature but I haven't had a free weekend in a while.

The project is fully open source: https://github.com/linksort/linksort

New comment by aor215 in "Structured Errors in Go (2022)"

aor215 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:31:00 +0000

I wrote an article covering the same problems but with a slightly different solution a few years ago: https://alexrichey.com/articles/2021-09-09-error-handling-in...

This approach has been successful in major projects at work and on the side for several years now.

New comment by aor215 in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

aor215 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 04:36:39 +0000

I don’t think anything will help the author as much as giving a bunch of money away. I grew up in a community where I met good number of very rich people with inherited wealth and every one of them is depressed or has some other issue—hypochondria, feelings of inadequacy, or some strange striving for significance through conspicuous consumption which is, of course, ultimately unfulfilling, etc. The root cause in all these cases, in my view, is the money. Just give it away and face the fear of engaging with the world again.

New comment by aor215 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

aor215 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 23:19:02 +0000

https://alexrichey.com/

I write personal essays and articles about code.

Portland

aor215 — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:44:12 +0000

Article URL: https://alexrichey.com/articles/2023-05-16-portland.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35961800

Points: 3

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My Search for America

aor215 — Fri, 12 May 2023 20:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://alexrichey.com/articles/2022-05-15-my-search-for-america.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921806

Points: 1

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Linksort's Public API

aor215 — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 23:28:43 +0000

Article URL: https://linksort.com/blog/public-api-etc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34842018

Points: 2

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New comment by aor215 in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

aor215 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:06:03 +0000

Linksort: https://linksort.com/

Pretty much like Pocket, but open source.

Why I Could Be Wrong

aor215 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 18:11:15 +0000

Article URL: https://alexrichey.com/articles/2023-01-01-why-i-could-be-wrong.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34208906

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by aor215 in "Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager"

aor215 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 23:55:09 +0000

Thanks! On mobile, I just open the page in the browser. There's a Safari extension that works on mobile for iOS that enables you to save links [0]. I haven't bothered to get the Chrome extension to work on mobile yet.

[0] https://linksort.com/blog/safari/

New comment by aor215 in "Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager"

aor215 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 23:24:15 +0000

I made my own little solution to this problem too: https://linksort.com

New comment by aor215 in "Ask HN: What do you think is all this? (this reality, existence, space-time, us)"

aor215 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 09:35:19 +0000

The late Derek Parfit explores numerous answers to these questions in his paper “Why Anything? Why This?”[1]. It’s hard to give a quick summary of the paper, but basically a lot of different views are considered—theism, atheism, brute fact view, etc.—and in the end Parfit seems to suggest that the existence of the universe would be somehow non-coincidental if one appeals to simplicity in ruling out or deciding between competing explanations.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Why-Anything-Why-This-...

New comment by aor215 in "Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?"

aor215 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:02:53 +0000

I used to think the same. I too find my job to be easy and sometimes feel like we have this secret in the software industry that our work really isn't all that difficult these days, with so many hard problems having already been solved. I say this as a senior SDE in big tech.

But, after watching a close friend, who is brilliant—she had gone to a top 30 college undergrad and had top SAT scores—go to a coding bootcamp (the same one I went to) and fail to switch careers I started to think differently. For some reason, I find the work easy and interesting, but many others do not.

I do agree that many more people are capable of becoming developers than choose to do so. But this fact may not be as interesting as it sounds. Many people just don't like coding. Many just don't want to spend their days writing code, even if it pays well.

I don't mean to downplay irrational reasons why people choose not to pursue software. The industry still has a lot of negative stereotypes about what the work is actually like that prevent people from giving it a try, but, more and more, I've noticed that, even among people who know such stereotypes are false, many just don't want to do the job, even if they could.

Error Handling in Go REST APIs

aor215 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:29:59 +0000

Article URL: https://linksort.com/blog/error-handling-in-go-rest-apis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472266

Points: 1

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New comment by aor215 in "Show HN: Yagss, yet another generator of static sites"

aor215 — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:06:42 +0000

Hi HN, I built yagss because I wanted to build a couple simple websites that are mostly just markdown, html, and css. I thought there would be a tool I could use that would make this easy but I couldn't find one that checked off everything I was looking for, so I threw together yagss over the last couple weeks.

I know, I know—there are so many static site generators. Still, I just wasn't satisfied with the available options. None seemed to support cache-busting and minification without a lot of setup; and many seemed to have significant requirements for building themes, many of which didn't make sense for my use-cases.

Yagss uses Jinja style templating, has a built-in cache-busting mechanism, minifies output by default, and has a few other features that aim to make it easy to throw together a simple website without having to figure out too much config.

I hope that yagss might be useful to a couple other people out there with similar requirements for their projects.

Show HN: Yagss, yet another generator of static sites

aor215 — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:21:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AlexanderRichey/yagss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778205

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by aor215 in "Free to download public domain art, posters and illustrations"

aor215 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:11:09 +0000

I used to work at a company called Meural that has a solution. I left after they were acquired and it looks like they've been pretty corporatized since then, but I suspect the frames themselves still look great.

https://www.netgear.com/home/digital-art-canvas