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Val Packett
Personal blog · val.packett.cool/blogprogrammingweb
Val Packett's personal blog at val.packett.cool covers programming and web. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on TiddlyPWA, an effort to run TiddlyWiki as a web app. The commenter raises mobile saving, performance as tiddler counts grow, and syncing across clients.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-09
- Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-06
- Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-10
- TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-26
What Hacker News says?
TiddlyWiki still works as intended: https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted but there are so many different clients to run on. Mobile or Desktop ? What OS? What Browser? This effort https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/ is remarkable as the mobile side of saving is not as robust as on the desktop side of things and there is a scaling limit on performance as the number of tiddlers grows. Also the syncing between tw…
Comment linking /blog/tiddlypwa/
on “TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids”Submitted Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser as a story · 116 points
HN discussionSubmitted Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted path.join Considered Harmful, or Openat() All the Things as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
