XExena·Jun 4, 2026
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https://github.com/Xe/site/commit/f846b489092412b8c1ef70bebd...
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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24 sourcesI've honestly been thinking of doing the same kind of thing for a while, but I need to make sure that my generator is exactly 69 lines of code like it currently is: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/cmd/no-way-to-prevent-t...
In 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happensWhenever you load my blog, it randomly sends back a name from my configuration's clackset: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/ff8627975e5f6718fff33051d11a.... I hate that the list is so long but over time it will only grow longer.
In X-Clacks-OverheadI do something similar like this for xeiaso.net (http://ryelkcbr65vy7pzx26c3rvxya54yuh5ciafth7p6d3p3phpgo2wkz...), but I use Kubernetes so I installed the Tor controller: https://github.com/bugfest/tor-controller. I then added an OnionService pointing to the website: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/manifest/xesite/onionse.... It works pretty great!
In Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid EasyThe code is pretty trivial but in case it helps: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/internal/clackset.go
In X-Clacks-OverheadMy website returns a random person in a list for every X-Clacks-Overhead response header: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/877872b4d7db92b602683ecb4e99...
I figured this was one of the best ways to do it. That way I'm letting people that were significant to me live on forever, one random HTTP response header at a time.
$ curl https://xeiaso.net --head | grep clacks
x-clacks-overhead: GNU Satoru Iwata
In X-Clacks-Overheadhttps://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/
Generated by exactly 69 lines of Go every time: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/cmd/no-way-to-prevent-t...
In "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happensMy blog https://xeiaso.net (source code: https://github.com/Xe/site) and the stuff I've written for it ended up doing several things to help me get employed over the years:
1. Letting me have a place to write to get better at writing, which makes it easier to do my job in DevRel.
2. Lets me talk about all of the interesting projects I work on (eg: an AI novel writing experiment https://xeiaso.net/videos/2023/ai-hackathon/) that people regularly find interesting. This gets people interested in wanting to employ me, which ends up working up well for me in the long run.
Do side projects, but write about what you did and what you learned.
In Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?I don't have a good guide. I had to just start getting my hands dirty and piece it together.
My strategies:
- keep the documentation open
- install nixos in a vm
- search github for "configuration.nix" to find fully worked examples for nixos. I just cloned anything that looked useful[1] and would grep through it
- read the source code for nixpkgs
- search google and search https://discourse.nixos.org/ when you have an idea of what you want to do to find other people discussing it
It took me a couple days to have a very basic system running and a month to port most of my setup into nix (running some containers, overriding system packages, defining my own packages, running unmodified binaries using nix-ld).
I still use non-nix containers for a few services that I don't want to port over (but if I had known nix when I started I definitely wo
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uld've used it).
Every step of the way was a huge struggle but the tools I have learned stay useful so I hope it is worthwhile investment. Still sometimes the extra nix friction is really frustrating but I can't help but think Nix or something like it is inevitably the future of software.
[1]: here is my random current list with some good and some bad...
https://cgit.euer.krebsco.de/stockholm/ https://github.com/9ary/dotfiles.git https://github.com/baitinq/nixos-config https://github.com/barrucadu/nixfiles.git https://github.com/catern/dotfiles.git https://github.com/contrun/infra.git https://github.com/disassembler/network.git https://github.com/juliosueiras/rasp-nix/ https://github.com/KFearsoff/NixOS-config.git https://github.com/lopsided98/nixos-config https://github.com/Mic92/dotfiles.git https://github.com/moul/nixpkgs.git https://github.com/musnix/musnix https://github.com/myme/dotfiles https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager.git https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-org-configurations.git https://github.com/reckenrode/nixos-configs https://github.com/skogsbrus/os https://github.com/Xe/nixos-configs.git https://github.com/Xe/site.git https://git.immae.eu/perso/Immae/Config/Nix.git https://gitlab.com/pgronkievitz/nixos-configurations.git https://gitlab.com/rprospero/dotfiles.git
As someone who is regularly falling victim to the rightward lurch (for having committed the dastardly crime of the wrong hormone activating in-utero), the only reason I don't actively block Hacker News readers is that I make ad money off of them. That is the only reason it's worth the abuse vector to me.
dang, if you are reading this, please take a moment to seriously consider the actions you have taken today. I understand your desire for the community that Hacker News could be, but that is so far away from what it is today that it's almost laughable. Yes, this is a no-win situation but that's bascially how it is globally when trying to be centerist about any issue. I use Hacker News referers to change the page slightly (mostly to add a deserved "hey, can you please not be an asshole, thanks" via this code: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob
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/686cc58fb6fc8f2e3bf0197e9b38...) and I would be very frustrated if that went away. Maybe even to the point of having a worker process figure out if my articles are posted to hacker news and making them go dark if they are on the front page. I know you value the articles I post (as our email threads have contained), but really it's an abuse vector that I need to keep metrics of.
Website administrators should be allowed to block Hacker News referers. Yes this is a thing that is not desirable for you as an administrator, but at some level something's got to give. The enshittening of Hacker News is something that is very undesirable for me too. I've gone over this in our emails. This was going to be another one of those emails, but I really would prefer this one to be out in the open.
My read time estimate code is here: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/aa3608afa6c62695ca0ab139f823...
I've been trying to play with the constants over the years to make the read time estimate more "accurate", but it's a tough nut to crack in general. So I can go over my numbers more accurately, how long did it take you to read it?
In Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enoughI originally started putting ads on my blog after people started being an asshole about my articles on Hacker News, originally scoped to only readers from Hacker News. That combined with Patreon pays for all my hosting costs (even the CDN on fly.io and my random AWS infrastructure) and all the video games I play (about $280 US per month of income). It's gotten to the point where it's a tax burden, but I think it's worth it. I've never had a side project make an actual profit before and I'm excited to keep writing as a way to hone my skills and get experience with even more fun technology.
My recent post on embedding Rust into Go programs with WebAssembly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33713717) made me about $20 of ad impressions on the day of its release, pretty impressive given how many of you people must run ad blockers!
It'd be
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cool to make my blog generate more income and eventually take over as my full time job, but I'm pretty happy with the fact that it's a side project that I can peck at when I want to. A lot of energy that would be spent doing various random Discord/IRC bots that go nowhere ends up being thrust into the blog instead. I also love being able to integrate various cursed things (like a Dhall script that takes my salary history data to spit out LaTeX for my resume: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/dhall/latex/resume.dhal...) and then write up how I did it and why. It makes coming up with ideas for the blog a lot easier!
I have plans to make a "Why I think WASI is cool" style post with interactive terminals that run WebAssembly programs in the browser, but I'm still trying to figure out how to graft xterm.js into my custom build setup with Deno. I have an untested but should theoretically work implementation here though in case anyone has any tips: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/main/src/frontend/wasiterm.t...
Filing my taxes is a huge pain now lol.
I've found it worth doing. My blog (xeiaso.net, formerly christine.website) is the main way that I get employed at this point. It also helps that people link it here a lot. After 100 articles or so writing got a lot easier and now people rely on my blog for a lot of things. I think it's worth it, but I've also been exclusively self-hosting it. I currently have the code (and writing) open source on GitHub (https://github.com/Xe/site) but I'm considering moving the writing to either a private repo or a SQLite database because people keep copying it, slathering it in ads and rehosting it.
EDIT: also because independent personal blogs are a rarity now, having a decent one means that you can really stand out from the crowd.
In Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?Oh dear. I pushed an addendum to the article: https://github.com/Xe/site/commit/05135edcbe5e474131c15c2476...
Thanks for pointing that out!
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