Navel Gazing

481 posts in 4 years.

Last year

One of my blog posts, the one about .git crawlers, got posted to Lobste.rs, a computers and computer science oriented link aggregator, and to Hacker News, a startup, venture capital ideology and occasional science/math link aggregator.

I’ve had another post make it to all three of Hacker News, Slashdot and Lobste.rs before, but on that occasion I compared Hacker News to Slashdot humans. Here, I compare Hacker News to Lobste.rs humans.

At 2025-11-15T15:38:20Z, I submitted my Goofing on Meta blog post to the Hacker News link aggregation website. Shortly after that, at 2025-11-15T18:22:00Z, short blurb tech news website slashdot.org put an article about the same blog past in the Technology News section.

Since I run my own web server, I can see how the two sites’ users compare.

348 posts in 3 years.

On Saturday, May 31, 2025 11:06:36 PM UTC, I submitted a link to the How often does my IP address change post on this blog to the famed “Hacker News” web site.

On Saturday, July 26, 2025 2:25:36 PM UTC, I submitted another link, this time to the 10 Lessons from Napoleon post on this blog to the same web site.

I signed up with Fathom Analytics for a few months to see what “web analytics” were, and how they are gathered.

Matt Sayar investigated how often his home’s IP address changed. I did the same, inspired by him. Thanks, Matt!

I have an old web page here on my personal web site. It’s actually my single most popular page.

I write specifically about my scripting FTP file transfers web page. Go take a look, then come back for some navel gazing about it!