Work with the garage door up (2024) • Hacker News Board

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by stonogo » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

BoostandEthanol wrote: post #25

Goes both ways. I had a phase of trying this and found I had to invest as much or more effort figuring out how to document stuff for the eyes of an outside observer as I did on the actual task. Guess maybe the answer in my case is to not make it accessible, but does that defeat the purpose?

I don't think it defeats the purpose. Your audience will find you. Once that happens, you will start getting feedback, and then you can decide how to handle that. Closing the door just means your audience can't find you in the first place.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

jdrormdj wrote: post #23

somehnguy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe you may be overthinking it a tad. I take it just to mean "work in the open". As an example - at my home unless the weather is poor I always leave my garage door up when working on something, whether vehicles or other projects. This is mainly for sunlight and fresh air but the end result is the same. Any neighbor or passerby can see what I'm doing, and in rare cases may actually be able to help or offer advi…

I get leaving garage door open, just for ventilation, but I always lock the main gate on driveway. Letting random people to freely roam around workshop seems incredible reckless, dangerous, and like a pending lawsuit! The glassworkhop referenced earlier is working with liquid that is over 1500c! It can amputate a hand in seconds! The same with carpentry, my circular saw does not even have a safety conductivity switch…

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by oliver236 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by steezeburger » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

dcchuck wrote: post #14

I enjoyed the sentiment, thank you for sharing. Came to post about the site. My first reaction to the layout was "Oh, must be optimized for mobile." Then I clicked a link in one of the articles and it opened alongside it. Very slick. I enjoy this! It enables that "wiki deep dive" style of browsing. I suddenly want to read all your notes.

I actually made a Wikipedia browser directly inspired by Andy's blog: https://steezeburger.com/wikipedia-browser/

I find it a really intuitive way to browse notes and to get a feeling for the relationships between your collected information.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by stronglikedan » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by stronglikedan » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

oliver236 wrote: post #33

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

jdrormdj wrote: post #16

Could someone from california explain "garage door up" reference? Is it like pretending to be early apple or HP, and starting chip factory on backyard reference? Or some sort of open door policy? I just do not get it. If you own a house, you have $1m capital to deploy towards business. You do not have to invite random people and dogs from street, to steal or pee on your expensive equipment. If you actually have serio…

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

IncandescentGas wrote: post #22

jdrormdj wrote: post #16

Could someone from california explain "garage door up" reference? Is it like pretending to be early apple or HP, and starting chip factory on backyard reference? Or some sort of open door policy? I just do not get it. If you own a house, you have $1m capital to deploy towards business. You do not have to invite random people and dogs from street, to steal or pee on your expensive equipment. If you actually have serio…

> If you actually have serious workshop like restoring cars or building something, rent a warehouse. HOAs have strict rules about chemicals, noise and vans parked on drive way! I'd never buy a home in a HOA, because I don't need this guy telling me how I can use my garage. City ordinances are already good enough, when it comes to sane noise and parking rules.

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by wpm » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 2:59 PM UTC

oliver236 wrote: post #33

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

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Cause X is a stupid name

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by malshe » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

I would begrudgingly suggest LinkedIn. I have seen a bunch of professors doing it there successfully. There they also promote their Substack which LinkedIn allows. I remember Elon had banned Substack on X at one point.