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Accidentally in Code
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Accidentally in Code is a personal blog at cate.blog about programming, career and productivity. Since 2017, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “How I Offloaded My Anxiety to Trello”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Engineering an Interesting Life
Most-linked posts?
- How I Offloaded My Anxiety to Trello2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-28
- The Return of the Office2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-07
- Signs It's Time to Quit Your Job (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-13
- Accidentally in Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-18
- /2019/05/15/addressing-hiring-gaps-through-user-research/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-19
What Hacker News says?
I googled the quote, and based on the context here [0], it seems like the demographic being referred to is non-male. What's wrong with reviewing hiring processes to determine if they're excluding a demographic that contains individuals who would have done well in the role? [0] https://cate.blog/2019/05/15/addressing-hiring-gaps-through-... EDIT: The tl;dr for the article is that they're doing research on "how the pe…
Comment linking /2019/05/15/addressing-hiring-gaps-through-user-research/
on “Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures”Submitted Getting More Strategic as a story · 187 points
HN discussion"To that end, as we reviewed our hiring process, we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire." If that's there attitude then fuck them. You can guess which demographic they are talking about. https://cate.blog/2019/05/15/addressing-hiring-gaps-through-...
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on “How Automattic develops software for over 75M websites”Submitted The Cost of Fixing Things as a story · 77 points
HN discussionHer entire blog is a goldmine. Consider: https://cate.blog/2019/05/08/where-do-you-start-when-a-team-...
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on “The Cost of Fixing Things”Submitted Low process culture, high process culture as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI think the premise that "every employee in the team is an aspiring or budding creator in their niche" is for the majority of companies incorrect. In my experience it is much more likely to encounter "Dark matter developers" [1] than their opposite. When the personal brand building is not done on company-time (unless on behalf of the company, for example in a developer advocate role), it is no business of the compan…
Comment linking /2021/09/20/being-the-dri-of-your-career/
on “Ask HN: Employees personal brand – Threat or Weapon?”Submitted Signs It's Time to Quit Your Job (2021) as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accidentally in Code as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decisions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honey, I Left the Tech Industry as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rent versus Buy of Career Growth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Offloaded My Anxiety to Trello as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interviewing at Google (2010) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a Manager Feedback Cycle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good Architecture Is a Function of Time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted High Throughput, Low Completion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working from Home: How to Set Boundaries with Yourself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Energy Management for Newer Managers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Anatomy of a 1:1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Do We Recharge? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Return of the Office as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Offloaded My Anxiety to Trello as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build and Strengthen Distributed Engineering Teams – Accidentally in Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating the Productive Tension as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Judgement > Output as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Date – Blunt Implement or Forcing Function as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value of Getting Closer to the Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making a New Plan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Does Claude Need to Be My Social Media Manager? as a story · 1 points
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