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"I know where my code came from — but where did all you zombie's code come from?" -- Temporal Code Agent

(from All You Zombies, by Robert A. Heineken, 2026, ebook)

jaronilanon Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever

I wrote a short story about life expectancy last year.

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Base%20Rate.p...

Inspired by some random HN comment.

jaronilanon Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

I try to submit short (tech related) stories (https://github.com/jaronilan/stories) and never get any traction. (Might be time to write one about a vibe coder... ;))

jaronilanon EFF is leaving X

Everything old is new again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSOTQPUQoU

jaronilanon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

Nothing actually. Feels nice.

jaronilanon Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?

Now Hiring: Not You (2017): https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/now-hiring-not-...

jaronilanon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Finished my 4th short story. This one is about Life Expectancy. I wrote it after reading something on HN.

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Base%20Rate.p...

Will now move at the usual snail pace to write the next one.

jaronilanon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

Almost finished a short story I started writing when I read something on HN. It is about life expectancy.

Edit: Three from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories

jaronilanon Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual

OT: earlier this year I wrote a short fictional story about SEO….

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...

jaronilanon From where I left

I find, even in the short stories I write, that managing the story arc is so much harder than managing code execution…

jaronilanon The Age of PageRank Is Over (2022)

Always found the concept of PR intriguing and the original paper to be “foundational”.

I wrote an alternate reality fiction short story about PR and SEO. It is here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...

Not the most “popular topic”, but thought people around HN might find it interesting.

jaronilanon Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

Just finished a third short story.

It is about SEO: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/blob/main/Duplicitous.p...

jaronilanon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

Almost finished a short story I started writing about a year ago. It is about SEO.

Edit: Two from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories

jaronilanon Show HN: Dependency Hell (Short Story)

https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/commit/6f21536e2eae6540...

Ok. That was an easy fix.

$ git push origin main

Enter.