TBH, it's kind of hard to square "I locked down my phone to have less distractions in my life" with "I put a counter on my page that changes 10 times a second while you're trying to read"

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Hamuko 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I didn't even notice that there was a counter before I opened the HN comments.

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stopachka 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Fair point! I guess I count that as a "positive" distraction. It isn't every day that the active number there is so 'active'.

As you read the post it should disappear with the scroll.

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tolerance 6 days ago | parent [-]

My charitable suspicion is that this blog post is all some sort of esoteric way for you to show off your nifty technology. If it wasn’t for your robust catalog of previous writing I’d be more confident in this.

But whatever the case is, you hit on something right here!

	▲	stopachka 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you for the kind words about the nifty technology and the essay : ) You know you touch on something interesting. I feel like the best 'marketing' or 'networking' happens over decades. Of course this implies that best 'marketing' and 'networking' are often done for a different goal entirely. I noticed this in my career. I've always been interested in programming and writing, and it would bring me to ask people random questions over email. I'd find myself connecting with the same person 10 years later, and we'd help each other out in some way.