Hacker News: theowenyoung

New comment by theowenyoung in "Reminder: Backup Your Blog"

theowenyoung — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:22:54 +0000

I'm working on something related — Jant [0], an open-source blog system I'm building.

One of the features is that every edit auto-syncs to a GitHub repo as Markdown, and the repo itself is a full Hugo site you can build independently. So the backup is always there without thinking about it.

Not released yet but almost done. Repo is public if you want to take a look.

[0]: https://github.com/jant-me/jant/

AI Twitter's favourite lie: everyone wants to be a developer

theowenyoung — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:01:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/ai-twitters-favourite-lie-everyone-wants-to-be-a-developer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016699

Points: 12

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Show HN: Artab – Get Inspired by the Greatest Artworks in Every New Tab

theowenyoung — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://artab.owenyoung.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42488179

Points: 3

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The Original Sin of Free Software (2019)

theowenyoung — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 15:58:04 +0000

Article URL: https://lipu.dgold.eu/original-sin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39885388

Points: 3

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New comment by theowenyoung in "How do you browse Hacker News?"

theowenyoung — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:13:56 +0000

I use https://hn.buzzing.cc/ to browser Hacker News in both Chinese and English.

New comment by theowenyoung in "Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?"

theowenyoung — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:46:45 +0000

JSONBin: https://github.com/theowenyoung/blog/tree/main/scripts/jsonb...

CronBin: https://github.com/theowenyoung/blog/tree/main/scripts/cronb...

Both scripts are deployed as single file js in the free tier of Cloudflare's Workers, and my personal workflow relies on these two simple services for all persistent data storage and scheduled tasks.

Show HN: I made myself a HN site in English and Chinese, so I can read more HN

theowenyoung — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:31:49 +0000

It is a single static html page, I also provide jsonfeed[0] and rss[1], and I incidentally support Traditional Chinese[2], Japanese[3], and English only[4], but I don't think I currently have English users or Japanese users.

I tried to get `og:image` at the same time as getting hacker news' post to display the image, and I used deepl's API for translation.

If you happen to need this, feel free to use it!

There are more hn topic subsite like Show HN[5], Ask HN[6], Best HN [7], HN Front[8] etc.

[0]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/feed.json

[1]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/feed.xml

[2]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/zh-Hant/

[3]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/ja/

[4]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/en/

[5]: https://showhn.buzzing.cc/

[6]: https://askhn.buzzing.cc/

[7]: https://hn.buzzing.cc/

[8]: https://hnfront.buzzing.cc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33527827

Points: 3

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Show HN: Track Awesome List – Get Awesome List Updates Daily

theowenyoung — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:55:06 +0000

I find myself often wanting to know the recent updates of some awesome list such as awesome-selfhosted [0], so I developed this tool to track the updates of more than 600 awesome lists and provide RSS feeds. The code is also open source [1], I hope this small tool can help you.

And I also provide a client-side search [2], so you can search all awesome projects there, I implemented it through wasm supported by morsels[3].

[0]: https://www.trackawesomelist.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-...

[1]: https://github.com/trackawesomelist/trackawesomelist-source

[2]: https://www.trackawesomelist.com/search/

[3]: https://github.com/ang-zeyu/morsels

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33471886

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by theowenyoung in "Show HN: A self-hosted Twitter- and Reddit-like site written in Rust"

theowenyoung — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:26:43 +0000

I like it. This basically meets all the features I want, can you share the reasons for not using sqlite for the database but sed?

New comment by theowenyoung in "Ask HN: Is there a way for github.com to send me to my repos instead of my dash?"

theowenyoung — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 02:59:52 +0000

I have the same problem, so I use my personal domain [0] to redirect to repos page, it works great. here is the javascript code:

    async function handleRequest(request) {
      const requestUrl = new URL(request.url);
      let target = "https://github.com/theowenyoung?tab=repositories"
      if(requestUrl.pathname!=="/"){
        target = "https://github.com/theowenyoung"+requestUrl.pathname
      }
      return Response.redirect(target, 302);
    }
    addEventListener('fetch', async event => {
      event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request));
    });

[0]: https://git.owenyoung.com

New comment by theowenyoung in "An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)"

theowenyoung — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:30:30 +0000

Very great presentation! I made a little toy some time ago [1] with YAML files compiled into Javascript code, in Lisp style, basically along the same lines as the article, and I use this project to manage my dotfiles. The basic syntax probably looks like this:

  - use: def
    id: obj
    args:
      list:
        - Hello
        - true
      foo:
        cat: 10
  - use: console.log
    args:
      - ${obj.list[0]} World
      - ${obj.foo.cat}
      - ${JSON.stringify(obj.foo)}

[1]: https://github.com/yamlscript/yamlscript

New comment by theowenyoung in "Ask HN: Our personal domain name will expire when we die, how should we do?"

theowenyoung — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:28:17 +0000

Good idea, it seems that I can start a 301 redirecting before I die, If all goes well, search engines have a 10-year window to navigate to the new free hosting site.

New comment by theowenyoung in "Ask HN: Our personal domain name will expire when we die, how should we do?"

theowenyoung — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:19:30 +0000

I don't think my personal website is worth such a huge cost to maintain after my death, I just don't think it's a good thing to let the links on my personal website become invalid after my death.

Ask HN: Our personal domain name will expire when we die, how should we do?

theowenyoung — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:12:14 +0000

If our domain name is no longer valid, then all the links included on Google will also be invalid? Shouldn't we use github.io from a long-term perspective, so that the probability of not expiring in the long run is a bit higher?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32057206

Points: 4

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