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Ask HN: What happened to https://whytheluckystiff.net/?

42 pointsby da02almost 6 years ago
Based on the current content, it seems the domain has become another how-to tech blog using Wordpress. (Not that there&#x27;s anything wrong with that.)<p>Has this &quot;passing of the torch&quot; of whytheluckystiff.net been covered before on HN?

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dangalmost 6 years ago
This should maybe be left as an exercise for the reader, but here&#x27;s the solution:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2009-08-19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2009-08-19</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2009-08-20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2009-08-20</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20090820010834&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20090820010834&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycomb...</a><p>What people may not remember is that, sometime between <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=775727" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=775727</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=776473" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=776473</a>, we got the second HN Erlang avalanche. I doubt anyone remembers who triggered that one. I tried to find a screenshot of the frontpage at peak Erlang but the Wayback machine wasn&#x27;t crawling HN so often back then. (It didn&#x27;t get it the first time, either, but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2009-03-11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front?day=2009-03-11</a> is an approximation.)<p>Later follow-ups:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=whytheluckystiff%20points%3E30&amp;sort=byDate&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=story&amp;storyText=false&amp;prefix=false&amp;page=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?query=whytheluckystiff%20points%3E30...</a>
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rurbanalmost 6 years ago
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whymirror.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;whymirror.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>But potion is now maintaining by me under perl11. libsyck also needs a minor revival I think. I once stood at his front porch but didn&#x27;t dare to ring the bell. He&#x27;s doing fine I guess.
schappimalmost 6 years ago
Don&#x27;t forget: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Why_the_lucky_stiff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Why_the_lucky_stiff</a>
anthony_doanalmost 6 years ago
This is around the time I&#x27;ve started my programming career. Many of my buddy went with RoR while I stuck with PHP. I went to a few Ruby meetup with my friends before the web dev boot camps phase started.<p>If I recall correctly, because this is such a while back, he left and wants to be left alone. Seems like he got issues to resolve and what ever it is it&#x27;s personal.<p>As for the website there are dupes out there.