Jes Olson
j3s.sh · Personal blog · on HN since 2022
Jes Olson writes a plain-text personal site about self-hosting, Linux, shell tips, RSS, and running a website as one binary.
What HN saysHN commenters like the site as a refreshing contrast to SEO blogspam, with a deliberate raw text and ASCII art look, and link the one-binary post.
19HN people shared it
9linked it in comments
23stories submitted
1.4Kstory points
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Most-shared posts
- 1My website is one binary5 people · 257 points · first shared 2022 · 67 comments on HN
- 2Shell tip: print JSON with printf3 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 3“Attention assault” on Fandom2 people · 401 points · first shared 2024 · 218 comments on HN
- 4Blogs rot. Wikis wait2 people · 196 points · first shared 2025 · 126 comments on HN
- 5Drones run Linux: free software isn't enough2 people · 5 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox2 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 7Vore: A new RSS feed reader2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 8Using discord is morally lazy2 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 9Homepage2 people · first shared 2022
- 10Trainwreck Design1 people · 148 points · first shared 2024 · 103 comments on HN
- 11My deployment platform is a shell script1 people · 130 points · first shared 2024 · 138 comments on HN
- 12Fail2ban Sucks (2020)1 people · 98 points · first shared 2024 · 124 comments on HN
- 13.io Domains Considered Harmful1 people · 94 points · first shared 2022 · 85 comments on HN
- 14There is beauty in teh minimalism of email1 people · 9 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 15Write Posix Shell1 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
j3s · 2024-08-01
Rek drew the pufferfish on my website & i love it to death https://j3s.sh
jaytaylor · 2022-03-27
The author's website is refreshing in the current age of blogspam SEO optimization. Worth a glance and they sound friendly! Even though there is the suspiciously consistent scatalogical theme..
https://j3s.sh/
ratrocket · 2022-04-21
Presumably following on from recent posts around the web:
https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html
(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937515)
and (inspired by the above)
https://www.andreinc.net/2022/04/10/a-blog-that-is-a-single-executable…
(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31081049)
paranoidxprod · 2025-07-25
From one of these user's most recent posts here https://j3s.sh/thought/blogs-rot-wikis-wait.html:
p.s. i'm working on a new wiki to replace my website with - something new, from the ground up. git.j3s.sh/abyss - stay tuned I wonder if they'll still be using a similar approach for the new site.
benrutter · 2024-08-19
I think it's an intentional aesthetic choice[0].
Hyperlinks would be convenient, but something about the raw text / ascii art vibe makes me happy everytime I read a blog post from j3s even if it doesn't have the conveniences of the modern web.
[0] https://j3s.sh/about.html
dvfjsdhgfv · 2024-04-10
Well, that would make it quite an exotic watch: https://j3s.sh/static/unnamed-puffy.png
lewispollard · 2023-11-21
They totally know. It's an application for consuming feeds called vore.
edit: https://j3s.sh/thought/vore-a-new-rss-feed-reader.html
> since vore consumes feeds, i
thought the name was perfect!!
i can't resist controversial
names apparently :3
RcouF1uZ4gsC · 2023-06-07
The person doesn’t even like Discord:
https://j3s.sh/thought/using-discord-is-morally-lazy.html
So it seems weird to publish a rant about Discord Nitro.