[davidshepherd7]

That page is copied verbatim from https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/ (which is linked at the top). The original page also has much better formatting.

[dang]

Changed now from https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/02/molly-guard.html above. Thanks!

[clbrmbr]

@dang Can a moderator update the link? The original is much better and we shouldn’t promote the copyposter.

[bookofjoe]

Full disclosure: I posted the original and it disappeared from HN so fast it made my head spin.

Isn't it better that someone gave it a second chance, even if only by clicking a link?

[albedoa]

No, your behavior is weird and hostile actually. Does Marcin even know that you lifted the content?

A traditional link blog would highlight a short excerpt so that the reader might be encouraged to click through to the full piece.

[bookofjoe]

Yes. I just emailed him, in fact, and he responded with details, no hostility!

>your behavior is weird and hostile actually

Look in the mirror.

>A traditional link blog would highlight a short excerpt so that the reader might be encouraged to click through to the full piece.

Mine is not a "traditional link blog" nor has it ever been since its inception on August 24, 2004. You're the first person I've known to use the phrase "traditional link blog." I like it! Maybe you should start one.

[MYEUHD]

You made 94 posts in the past 10 days...

[bookofjoe]

What is your point? As a rule I post to HN around 10x/day, pretty much hourly.... Judging by how regularly my posts appear at the top of the HN homepage, others appear to welcome my contributions.

[bookofjoe]

I just emailed a screenshot of this discussion to @dang.

I await his response.

[bookofjoe]

BTW I agree about the formatting being much better. Alas, I'm limited to Google's primitive Blogger as a host so that's the best I can do.

[batisteo]

…and Google-hosted.

[bookofjoe]

Sorry about that.

Typepad, which hosted my original blog since August 24, 2004, on September 1, 2025 gave me 30 days notice that it would shut down at midnight September 30, 2025, making my roughly 40,000 (not a typo) past posts inaccessible.

I spent a frantic month trying about 10 blog hosts seeking one I, a card-carrying Technodolt, could actually use without a lot of pain.

The only one that came close was Google's Blogger.

Alas, it's horrible: janky, confusing, and always changing something I thought I'd finalized.

Oh well...