My Friend Bob Cringely(tyma.com)
188 points by zinxq | 54 comments
Paul Tyma's personal blog post recounting his friendship with tech journalist Bob Cringely, beginning with a 1996 phone call about Tyma's Java book.
#memoir on Hacker News
6 stories tagged memoir, newest first.
Kidnapping kids remains legal in USA, this site has you experience it first-hand(elan.school)
4 points by bingowasthename | 0 comments
Joe vs Elan School, an illustrated webcomic memoir recounting the author's experience being sent at 16 to Elan School, a notorious behavior modification boarding school.
Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert(substack.com)
781 points by Vincent_Yan404 | 347 comments
A Substack memoir about growing up in a classified Chinese atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert, a city known as "404" that was never on maps.
After my dad died, we found the love letters(jenn.site)
854 points by eatitraw | 389 comments
A personal blog essay on Jenneral HQ about discovering love letters among the author's late father's belongings and reflecting on her parents' arranged marriage.
Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)(mydiplomaticlife.com)
404 points by Hansig_jw | 221 comments
A blog post by a former diplomat recounting how he lived and coped during three years as a foreigner in North Korea.
Helen Keller on her life before self-consciousness (1908)(scentofdawn.blogspot.com)
639 points by ahiknsr | 277 comments
Blog post excerpting Helen Keller's 1908 book The World I Live In, describing her life before she acquired language and self-consciousness.