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Phil Gyford
Personal blog · gyford.comdesignwriting
Phil Gyford's personal blog at gyford.com covers design and writing. Since 2008, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Our Incredible Journey”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Our Incredible Journey4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-03-26
- My First Months in Cyberspace4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-15
- /phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredible-journey/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-10
- Tech's tunnel vision2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-24
- /phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_guid.php2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-28
What Hacker News says?
I'm referring to the trite overused cliches that often fill these sorts of blog posts. https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredibl... See also the recent example of https://www.slingbox.com/discontinued , which makes this funny pair of claims: Q: Why is Slingbox being discontinued? A: We’ve had to make room for new innovative products so that we can continue to serve our customers in the best way po…
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on “I sold Baremetrics”Submitted No Longer Posting to Pinboard as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSee, for example: http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredible...
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on “Virtual Reality is going to change the world”Submitted Face.com closes its API after Facebook purchase as a story · 30 points
HN discussion>Soon, you’ll begin spending more time sharing stories with other founders to learn about their journeys than you spend talking to your customers and your prospects to learn about their needs. Is it even still possible to use the word "journey" in this context without it dripping with snarky ironic reference to "Our Incredible Journey" [1], with the obvious implication that a start-up is doomed to sell out and shut…
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on “Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter”Submitted Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone as a story · 7 points
HN discussionPhil Gyford just posted about "Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them." which covers some of those points https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-ligh...
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on “Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release”Submitted The thinking behind a UI for reading a newspaper on the web as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhere you go, downvoter dude (we can guess you're from one of the types described below, or aspire to be, meaning the startups that gets acqui-hired, and dumps their users ): https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredibl... https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/89180616013/wha... https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/about/
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on “20 years working on the same software product”Submitted Is modern web design too like print design? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_gu...
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on “Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay”Submitted Pen vs. keyboard vs. Newton vs. Graffiti vs. Treo vs. iPhone (2010) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInteresting quote from Brad Enslen about Google's possible role in this: > Search engines in general but Google in particular: they have warped the way we build websites, many websites used to have a splash or landing page first: “You have reached the Gates of Marlborodor” (complete with MIDI music) and a big Enter button. Search engines decided they didn’t like that so word spread to get rid of them. Rumors spread…
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on “Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs”Submitted My First Months in Cyberspace as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI liked it. Another good one: http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_gu... The only thing that jumped out at me about Jacques guide was the insurance section. In the US, plan on acquiring liability insurance, and plan on that process annoying the shit out of you. If you work for clients of any real size, it will inevitably be a requirement at some point. You don't want to be scrambling for it at t…
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on “How to run a small consultancy / freelancing business”Submitted Temporary archiving as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOh thank you and yes, link blogs - the biggest one for me right now is at imperica.com. The weekly 'web curios' roundup. I link this one a lot, so apologies if you've seen it already. (And I'm sure you mean Waxy in the 'usual' ones, right?) I've also linked to these quite a lot, but hey: * https://philosopher.life/ (see his 'link log' pages) * https://www.gyford.com/ * http://tilde.club/~jonbell/ * https://thingstoc…
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on “The old internet died and we watched and did nothing”Submitted Tech's tunnel vision as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's not only a meme, it's a Tumblog too, and I first saw it many years ago. Google "our incredible journey". https://www.google.com/search?q=our+incredible+journey https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredibl... https://www.tumblr.com/ourincrediblejourney
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on “We're Joining OpenAI”Submitted Moving from Lightroom to Apple Photos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe urge to build a shed seems to be pretty common. I've been thinking about it for a couple years now. As David Lynch said, "whenever you can build a shed, you’ve got it made." https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2003/08/18/david-lynch-o...
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on “Ask HN: Why does a busy man build a shed?”Submitted My First Months in Cyberspace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1]. [0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z
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on “No Longer Posting to Pinboard”Submitted Tech’s tunnel vision as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor anyone who saw that the fuzzy link in the article was broken: http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/WriteThinkLearn.pdf (I think this is right) and here is the wayback machine bookmarklet to make your life easier :) http://www.gyford.com/misc/wayback.html
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on “Don't Make the Demo Look Done (2006)”Submitted Twelescreen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDefinitely! $5k can last a year in india. Just freelance for your existing clients and live like a king for a year... on 1-2 jobs. Only 7-25% of Americans own a passport... so I doubt that many people would actually do it. http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2003/01/31/how_many_ameri... Would be quite an adventure though... :) My job was outsourced FROM India. So living there is just the next step I guess.
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on “Should you move to India for a job?”Submitted Our Incredible Journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome good resources for finding blogs: https://ooh.directory/ https://bearblog.dev/discover/ https://blogroll.org/ https://www.gyford.com/phil/blogroll/ https://interconnected.org/home/blogroll
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on “No, Blogging Is Not Dying Anytime Soon”Submitted Flickr iOS App Reverted as a story · 1 points
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