Ha! Thanks so much for the kind shout-out, j_s - what a memory you have! Glad to see my humble corner of the web is still of some small interest ;-)

Clearly there is still tremendous interest in the type of efficient software you curated so well back in the day. So many of the programs still work fine today even though their original websites are long gone -- a testament to minimal dependencies, your efforts to archive local copies, and Microsoft's commitment to backwards compatibility!

Your blog is always a breath of fresh air any time I happen to stumble by one of your solutions in response to searching for help. Definitely one of my "trusted" sources - don't ever let that domain expire!

How did you know he mentioned you?

Is there some sort of @mention bookmarklet/browser extension in HN?

HNWatcher[1] appears to offer something close: "Follow keywords, users, karma, domains on Hacker News".

The first HN notification system I learned of and used was HN Notify[2,3] by Riyad of The Buzz Media[4].

I've been using edavis' hnrss.org[5] of late; it "provides custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News", including for user posts and comments.

A quick search just now turned up dangrossman's HN Replies[6,7] and a few other monitoring options[8].

But in this case, it was indeed steanne's kind email that alerted me to the HN post.

[1] https://www.hnwatcher.com

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120103200449/http://hnnotify.c...

[3] https://github.com/rkalla/hnnotify

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20120119135841/http://www.thebuz...

[5] https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

[6] http://hnreplies.com

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539

[8] https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+comment+notifica...

failing other explanation, i linked the thread when i sent him a couple of additions.

Thank you, steanne - it was indeed your kind email that alerted me to the post!

Longtime supporter of tinyapps.org. Go, Miles, go!

interested 10 years ago, still do to this day :D

great job Miles