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Ana Ulin

Personal blog · anaulin.org/blogcareerprogramming

Ana Ulin's personal blog at anaulin.org covers career and programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Things nobody told me about being a software engineer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Ana Ulin's blog for candid writing about life as a software engineer, including the unspoken realities of the job and how engineer performance is measured.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Things nobody told me about being a software engineer
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. Erem · 2018-11-14Recommends
    The author was maybe the best engineer I've had the pleasure to work with directly in my 13 years in the industry. What a treat to read her internal thoughts on the job. Highly recommend her other posts on e.g. measuring performance of engineers https://anaulin.org/blog/why-do-we-have-performance-evaluati...

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    on “Things nobody told me about being a software engineer”
  2. Submitted Things nobody told me about being a software engineer as a story · 102 points

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  3. Submitted Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer as a story · 1 points

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