> Lousy of not, it’s still self-promotion. This is true whether it occurs once or many times.

If a few mentions of something you built counts as self promotion, then even the description and the link to the blog that jlgaddis has on his profile page is self-promotion. It promotes a blog that he writes, possibly to further his professional career.

> Clearly. However, you aren’t defending your accusation of jealousy. Jealousy was the key word that I was addressing.

Ok, let me rephrase that to be more clear: It rubs me in a way that makes me personally believe that something more than "I don't like self promotion" is at play. And I believe that it's jealousy. You obviously don't, but that's personal perception I guess.

It's really not "jealousy" but you're free to believe that if you'd like.

Would you feel better if I removed the info in my HN profile?

Note also that blog has been mostly neglected for the last ~5 years.

I don't mind the info in your profile nor the affiliate links on your blog. Quite to the contrary, keep them, keep adding content that's useful for others. Promote it, make money off it - everyone wins in that case. Useful content for me, money for you, I'm absolutely in favor of that. All I'd expect in that case is to be a little liberal when others do.