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Ellie Huxtable
Personal blog · ellie.wtf · on HN as elliehprogrammingculture
Ellie Huxtable writes Ellie's Notes, a personal blog at ellie.wtf about programming and culture. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “I quit my job to work full time on my open source project”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Personal site of Ellie Huxtable
Most-linked posts?
- I quit my job to work full time on my open source project3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
- Building an iPod for 20223 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14
- Social Media and Social Life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-19
What Hacker News says?
https://ellie.wtf I mostly just blog about things I’m doing
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted I quit my job to work full time on my open source project as a story · 637 points
HN discussionAtuin has encrypted sync, that'll be a big difference. I've used mcfly for years and I appreciate the hard work cantino has put into it, but mcfly is currently looking for a maintainer while the maintainer of Atuin has recently committed to doing so full time ( https://ellie.wtf/posts/i-quit-my-job-to-work-full-time-on-m... ). That may make a difference to some people considering which one to pick. Both are implemen…
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on “Fly through your shell history”Submitted Building an iPod for 2022 as a story · 518 points
HN discussionI've given a ton of thought to buying an old iPod and setting it up for modern usage, largely inspired by this blog post: https://ellie.wtf/ipod/ The author is a bit wrong about one thing, in that you can add Bluetooth capability, though it does require a headphone jack to Bluetooth adapter. In the end I didn't go the iPod route, but instead repurposed an old Samsung S9 with the sim removed. It's got an SD card slot…
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on “It's time to bring back the iPod”Submitted Building an iPod for 2022 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionhttps://ellie.wtf I mostly post things I'm working on and life updates, though I'm not very good at remembering it exists
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Don’t forget the human as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted I quit my job to work full time on my open source project as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backing Up Mastodon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading an iPod in 2022 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media and Social Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media and Social Life as a story · 1 points
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