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Hi, hello, I’m back at it

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I became addicted to Hacker News because Jason Kottke went on sabbatical. So long, suckers!

Can't break the addiction if you get lots of upvotes... EOT

Oh boy, this is too true for me.

Kottke.org is on a very small list of sites that I will subconsciously type into the browser when bored. I wish he would team up with a sales guy or maybe patio11 so the site could make more money. Seems like it’s often teetering on the brink.

This comment resonates with me. I have a few websites that my brain goes to:

- hn - old.reddit - lobste.rs

What are yours appart from kottke (which I didn't know about!)?

I am going on month 6 of a sabbatical and it's been Completely transformative.

Can we - the technical community within HN - lead the charge to make Sabbaticals part of our community expectations for work?

It's going to require hard negotiating but we have shown, as a technical community, that we can lead shifts in how people work.

Would you explain how was it transformative for you?

Thanks for asking.

I'll skip the details and say that I finally had the time to work through a lot of trauma from my childhood, as well as having enough time away from being required to work that I really was able to hone in on what I am good at and passionate about.

I suspect that the more palatable path would be “normalize resume gaps”, with the first step being public data on just how damaging they currently are. It’s plausibly zero if you are technical and spent a (even small) fraction self-learning, though I truly don’t know what the data would show.

Anecdotal: A friend took about 3mo off, then spent 3mo practicing and doing FAANG-adjacent interviews for a mid career technical role. Ended up OK, taking a little longer than expected but two offers above previous salary.

Ditto. Just beginning to ramp back up to interviewing again. I'm happy to report that I _am_ excited and eager to return to working (I was pretty worried that I would discover that all I wanted to do was live the life of leisure - which is pleasant, but unsustainable!), but that I'm doing so with a much healthier mindset and attitude towards work.

https://kottke.org/22/12/jodorowskys-tron

It is posts like this which meant I missed Jason so much during his sabbatical. I don’t seem to find similar content anywhere else. So glad he’s back.

I saw it here first. It's another good aggregator.

https://boingboing.net/2022/11/26/if-alessando-jodorowsky-fi...

Thanks, I do always forget about them to be honest, sooo many ads.

I use Brave browser. It has an ad blocker.

On https://boingboing.net/2022/11/26/if-alessando-jodorowsky-fi..., do you see those “articles” about getting 20% off some VPN, getting your cat a laser pointer and the dollar flight club?

I never scroll down that far. And if I see one, I just ignore it.

boingboing used to be amazing, now it's mostly clickbait ads ):

Great to see Jason back... Kottke has always been a great source of curation. May his pain subside soon.

Was there are a controversial hot take from Mt. Kottke that may have made me stop reading his stuff? I remember him from the early 00's but for some reason stop tuning in.

Is this guy famous purely for his blog? Have not heard of him before today. Cool blog though

Yes.

He’s (internet) famous for having a very old and consistent blog

Him taking a break was notable because he’s been a relentless sharer of cool things since the 90s

> He’s (internet) famous for having a very old and consistent blog

Coming up on twenty-five years:

* https://kottke.org/22/03/24-years

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Kottke

He also made one of the early pixel fonts that became popular on Flash.

https://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/

From his about page,

kottke.org is hosted by Arcustech and published using Movable Type.

Wow kottke.org is powered by Perl :)

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31316602 from May.

jwz has also been blogging since at least 2002 fairly consistently, but we don't talk about him on hn.

Glad to hear it!

can't believe i've been reading his site since 1998, Jason is internet pantheon in my book

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