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Adam Keys
Personal blog · therealadam.com · on HN as adamkeysprogrammingwritingcareer
Adam Keys's personal blog at therealadam.com covers programming, writing and career. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Don’t be spooky”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is Adam Keys's 'Please don't be spooky' (2021), which an HN comment cites as the original source for an earlier discussion. The comment only attributes the post and links the thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Telling a joke, trying to, or making a joke of myself. Engineering lead and full-stack developer. Porsches, Disney parks, pub quiz, Star Wars, Destiny, music, television. We should all write more words. I’m an engineering manager/technical lead building teams and software with Ruby/Rails and JavaSc
Most-linked posts?
- Don’t be spooky2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-06
What Hacker News says?
Original by Adam Keys https://therealadam.com/2021/11/01/dont-be-spooky/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29130590
Comment linking /2021/11/01/dont-be-spooky/
on “Please don't be spooky”Submitted Don’t be spooky as a story · 556 points
HN discussionLocation: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, JS, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Heroku, Python, Go, Redshift, SQL Résumé/CV: Resume here, if that’s your thing. https://therealadam.com/uploads/2025/adam-keysresume-v2-3.pd... I’m an experienced and proven, as they say, engineering leader and hands-on developer. I’ve been building Rails apps since 1.0 and leading tea…
Comment linking /work/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)”Submitted Tooling has improved for ambitious software developers as a story · 61 points
HN discussionLocation: Portland, OR Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, JS, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Heroku, Python, Go, Redshift, SQL Résumé/CV: Resume here, if that’s your thing. https://therealadam.com/uploads/2025/adam-keysresume-v2-3.pd... I’m an experienced and proven, as they say, engineering leader and hands-on developer. I’ve been building Rails apps since 1.0 and leading tea…
Comment linking /work/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)”Submitted Would you pay more for a noisy computer? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted How did SQL get so popular? as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adam Keys Is Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming feedback: timing is everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted English-like programming languages, like, yuck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personal website patterns as a story · 1 points
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